Ask HN: What new areas of technology are the most intriguing to you?

I’m still intrigued by RADs. Business-friendly development feels like being a frog in boiling water with all these things that should be under Ctrl-N, drag and drop and F9. Annual researches yield some more results, but nothing compared to what I’ve extrapolated in the past.

Not intrigued at all by any of today’s fuss, tbh.

I want to build a bitgrid ASIC, I think it would be a good stepping stone to getting petaflops in the hands of the masses. Even if the chip itself is a bust, I think the concept of the chip itself could be a "solvent" in terms of thinking about how to get there. Unlike a Turing machine, this has no moving pointers, so it's much easier to think about.

I'm completely sold on the shockingly old idea of capability based security. I'd love to never have to run a virus scanner ever again.

I'm hopeful that bipolaron chain ultraconductors actually work, and it's possible to have room temperature conductors that are 10,000,000 times better than silver, grown from urethane. You could make some really good 3d printed motors if this works out.

CNC machining and 3d printing are amazing to me. New stuff all the time. I can't wait until we're able to sputter semiconductor onto an atomically flat surface, then build transistors one at a time on it in a home fab.

Software defined radio (SDR) is amazing stuff. I can't believe how much you can do with $100 of hardware and a bit of code.

I'm hopeful that Mike McCulloch's ideas about quantized inertia[1] turn out to be close enough to right to build some reactionless thrusters.

[1] https://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/

Definitely AR/VR. I’ve been following it since 2013 and working in the field since 2018. I suspect many big Android phone OEMs will get into the space in the next year or so and it will explode in popularity.

Im waiting for the tinygrad custom ASIC.

Also VR/AR/mixed reality. Looking forward to a true mixed reality operating system with 3d widgets and 3d applications that interact with each other and your environment.

Also things like AI text-to-video in the next few years will probably get vastly more useful.

AR/VR

Artificial Intelligence

Biohacking / Bioengineering / Biomaterials / etc.

Fusion

Materials Science

PFAS remediation.