What technology will matter most in 2024?

Perhaps the most compelling—and the most likely—force to power tech in the 2020s is artificial intelligence. AI has improved dramatically within the past few years.

How will we apply technology that is more intelligent than its creators? Again, the primary aspect of nanobot-based virtual reality that is not yet feasible is size and cost. You (i.e., your brain) could decide to cause your muscles and limbs to move as you normally would, but the nanobots again intercept these interneuronal signals, suppress your ... See more

Most enabling technologies are relatively missionless: cloud infrastructure, semiconductors, mobile, even the internet. Perhaps AI should be mission-neutral at the infrastructure level, while the mission gets defined at the application layer. DeepMind’s stated mission seems to point in the right neutral direction: “solve intelligence, and then use

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