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Comment by tuatoru | Hacker News Reader

Huh? I still am excited about technology. Technologies I'm awaiting keenly:-

  * Electrolysed hydrogen for iron smelting and fertilizer making
  * Reverse osmosis fresh water production
  * Cell-cultured meat
  * Robots in pedestrian spaces / robots around people (hospital and university delivery bots, fruit picking bots, re-taskable robots in factories, etc.)
  * Bio-inspired textiles like artificial spider silk and vegan leather
  * Much better and cheaper assistive technologies (hearing and vision aids, movement aids, cognitive and memory compensation)

Oh, you mean social media and cloudy stuff? Yeah, never was into that.

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> Robots in pedestrian spaces / robots around people

I guess we haven't had enough with shitty bike/scooter sharing services cluttering sidewalks, now we'll have shitty food delivery services doing that too. Obviously none of them will even interoperate across different providers (how will the founders achieve their monopoly vision otherwise?) so it'll be wasteful both in terms of money, hardware, energy and sidewalk space. Can't wait!

I think it's not just social media and cloudy stuff, I also don't use those things, but if I want to buy a TV I have to look on how to avoid ads in it, if I install the new Windows I have to look up how to make it stop spying on me. The worst part is that all apps on smartphones now require subscriptions, which makes them virtually useless for me, I was willing to pay for a useful program, but I'm not gonna subscribe to one, so I just use my phone for the most basic stuff now.

I'm waiting for small scale nuclear energy to become more prevalent. That will probably be the big technological change that will get us off fossil fuels once and for all. Right now, if you don't live somewhere where hydroelectric or solar are options, you are pretty much stuck on coal fuel power plants.

Even hydroelectric has negative impacts on the environment, particular salmon habitat.

> Electrolysed hydrogen for iron smelting and fertilizer making

Yes! Will be fascinating to watch the inventors & scientists in hydrogen & energy make this happen

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