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10 technologies that won't exist in 5 years

Jacob Trefethen · 2 Feb 2024 · blog.jacobtrefethen.com ↗

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  1. Our reading

    Technological progress does not deliver the most important technologies first; what people choose to work on decides what exists.

    Their wordsTechnological progress is not a mystical force that delivers the most important ones first.
    Interesting

  2. Our reading

    Ten billion dollars over ten years would deliver most of a list of missing life-saving health technologies, so their absence is a funding choice rather than a scientific limit.

    Their wordsWith an extra $10 billion over 10 years I’m pretty sure we’d get to 5 or 6 of the 10 on the list, and millions of unnecessary deaths would be prevented.
    Interesting