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Ask HN: Your take on The best way to predict the future is to create it,for 2030

by mazsa on 1/3/20, 11:55 AM with 1 comments

  • by matt_s on 1/3/20, 1:44 PM

    Step 1: Watch Alan Kay's talks at Stanford: How to Invent the Future I - CS183F (2 parts, 2 hours)

    Step 2: Realize that in the last 40-50 years there hasn't been many huge revolutionary inventions/ideas like those in computing. Sure we have made things smaller and faster computationally but those are just iterations on a foundational thing that already existed.

    Step 3: Try to create something like PARC: gather a lot of bright minds together from different fields in a research setting. Fully fund them for 5 years (maybe this is step 2a - get $50-100 million together).