Ask HN: What technologies would you like to invent?
If you are provided with all the resources required,what new technologies would you invent or would like to be invented within your lifetime?
Sure, it's not as wonderful as teleportation / FTL / time travel. And I guess once eecks solves teleportation my insurance solution becomes irrelevant. But I see it as a specific pain point slowing down the development of a product that will massively change my life for the better.
Failing that, pretty much anything @boredelonmusk has tweeted would be nice to have royalties on.
I know wireless charging already exists to some extent, but it'd be cool to extend its current range. Lots of possibilities with that technology
Food problem solved, (in time) end of all wars as we know them. Wars on new problems/needs could arise, but still.
Communication is humanity's bottleneck.
I would be more interested in an universal real-time translator. It is 2016, it is about time
We both know this is impossible and won't fix a thing.