List of Emerging Technologies

From Bezos' last shareholder letter[0]: "Draw the box big around all of society, and you’ll find that invention is the root of all real value creation." I'm really hopeful that invention, like the ideas represented on this list, will get more attention and excitement from our youngest and smartest minds. In fact, I believe that having a successful society is dependent on this. [0]: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/2020-letter-to...

I didn't see one topic on this page that I wouldn't be happy reading about for an entire weekend, at least. The world is too interesting.

I'm actually excited about... fake meat. I think this has huge potential to reduce the amount of land and resources we need to use for agriculture. Of course, with that, will probably come an explosion in population... Any of the genetic/medical things will (IMHO) have annoyingly slow progress. The body is an incredibly complex system (duh), one I think that will defy efforts to "reverse engineer" is (so to speak). Put it this way: we need massive amounts of computing…

I posted this Wikipedia article to see if anyone has any additions or updates for any of these technologies and to hopefully generate discussion about them. How many years until we can send our cars out to go get food? I'd guess 10 years. How many years until we can upload all of wikipedia into our brains or an attachment that our brains can pull from / talk to? I'd guess 20 - 30 years. How many years until we…