- Animals get human rights and are no longer forced to endure life in slaughterhouses and be eaten. No animal can be harmed for food. Being vegan is normal. Caring is normal.
- No fossil fuels used. Only sustainable & environmentally energy sources used. Each country's grid is ran off renewable clean energy.
- All vehicles are electrical. Autonomous driving fully realized.
- Cure for all cancers & diseases (cheap immunotherapies, medicine).
- Psychedelics legalized. Both possession, purchase and manufacturing.
- NLP lets machines understand knowledge & language at deep level.
- Universal basic income allows each person to work on problems they deeply care about. Novel ideas can be explored by each person according to their interest & skill.
- Learn Anything is top 5 most visited websites on the internet. AI is able to craft personal optimized learning paths for learning any topic.
- No more Electron. All apps are native and use optimal amount of resources.
- No more UX dark patterns. Each app/tool experience optimizes for user joy & empowerment.
- Ability to control computers with thoughts at high bandwidth.
- Smarter cities that are friendly to humans, not cars.
- A lot of designated areas across the globe given back to wildlife to flourish.
- Jeremy Rifkin: "The Zero Marginal Cost Society" - Moving into the world where it costs nearly nothing to manufacture, share or create things. The growing economy of sharing things and less need for ownership.
- Why we should go to Mars
- The Web We Lost, and What Comes Next
- Ask HN: What up and coming technology has you most excited? (2018)
- Table of Disruptive Technologies
- The Humane Representation of Thought (2014)
- Rutger Bregman - “Utopia for Realists” and Big Ideas for an Equitable Economy (2019)
- Mark Zuckerberg & Yuval Noah Harari in Conversation (2019)
- Bill Gates on Startups, Investing and Solving The World's Hardest Problems (2019) (HN)
- Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? (2019)
- UCLA Internet50 (2019)
- Ask HN: What will become possible by 2025 in your field of expertise? (2019)
- Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)
- Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2020)
- Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on? (2020)
- Reading list for the modern critical programmer
- It's Time to Build (2020) (HN) (Twitter)
- How Tech Can Build (2020) (HN)
- Progress
- Timeline of the far future (HN)
- Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list? (2020)
- ASK HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following? (2020) (Reddit)
- The Roots of Progress - The story of human progress—and how we can keep it going.
- Progress Studies for Aspiring Young Scholars - Online summer program in the history of technology for high school students. (HN)
- Future of work + cities (2020)
- Fascinating Internet niche communities
- What happened to the future? - Founders Fund
- Which positive change in the world do you hope to see in your lifetime? (2020)
- Audio’s opportunity and who will capture it (2020) (HN)