what would it be? Imagine money is not an issue. And your answer doesn’t have to be something geared towards social justice or philanthropic. Just curious what we would all try and solve if we didn’t have to worry about money! For me, I’d love to figure out ways to leverage tech to help the folks on the history channel show - Mountain Men. So many times during each season where I thought, they could be working smarter and less harder. For example, trapping in the dead of winter and checking those traps takes a lot of time and snow machine breakdown is very common. What if we could leverage existing tech to allow the mountain man to be alerted when there is movement on his traps? Seems simple enough. Apply this also to bike theft in SF. A simple way to send an alert to the user if the bike lock is moved / disturbed beyond a certain threshold. What are some things like this that you would love to solve? Could be bigger or smaller!
Aging. In so much as the human body is a machine and aging is just an accumulation of damage natural to all machines, it will happen eventually assuming humanity survives and civilization progresses. Please note that curing aging does not imply immortality which is a mathematical impossibility. Life will always be finite but we don’t have to die from the disease of old age.
Fucking teleconferencing. It's 2018, and picking up a phone and calling is still easier.
To be a true space faring civilization. Right now we’re just learning how to swim, but eventually we should be able to move, mine resources, and sustainably live anywhere in the solar system
I'd figure out a way to remove half the people from Los Angeles. Sick of traffic and waiting in line to eat anywhere
I thought about this exact dilemma myself so many times. The obvious things that come to mind are world hunger and standard of living improvements through technology. Wouldn’t it be awesome if things just appeared in your fridge when they are gone through auto delivery system with devices connected to the back of your house that would wheel new things in and take old things out. If garbage took itself out, like the bin would roll itself out every Tuesday and roll itself back into the garage when it was empty. Yeah, all that would be dope but fuck all of it, I really just want blowjobs on demand.
Eliminate Unemployment, Poverty and distribute wealth so that everyone enjoys basic human rights.
Time travel
Easily and quickly be able to make people smarter so they can pass interviews
Climate change, increase self-awareness, disease
So your idea is to give technology to people who are actively avoiding technology?
Have you seen the show? They don’t avoid tech completely.