You won the lottery, and you now no longer have any needs for housing, food, or bills. You just finished going back to college and got the degree in that thing you wanted. Now, what would you build? A new service? Another Facebook? What is your wild, pie in the sky idea?
Unlimited time and skills?
I would focus on building an OS with AI tools, and then focus on improving its AI. The guys at airocorp are a bit slow. I would probably help them and make it all open source. But those are just dreams...
I would build, with lots of security help, a single store for peoples information. You could set your address, back details, phone number, etc. You would then grant permission for companies to access subsets of your information. So when you move, you change your info once, and all companies would automatically get updated with your new info.
While this is totally possible now, the security goes a little over my head, and getting everyone else to integrate would be a huge mission.
Turn Africa into an extremely fully connected smart continent. #SmartCities
Inter-planetary communication infrastructure. Let's get high speed internet on Mars and beyond!
Maybe...I would research cheaper and better ways to interface between the human body. You see, if we master those, we are one step from full immersive game experiences :D
If you think about the human body as a library, it's like a blackbox that have inputs and outputs. Inputs are our 5 senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. The most important outputs would be movement and speech, I guess.
We already exploit sight and hearing quite well. Given that smell is not that hard and taste is kinda negligible for a game, I believe it is possible TODAY to create a device of "full" virtual immersion. The hardest input would probably be the touch sense, but not at all impossible, given the state of human technology.
The real challenge would be the outputs. Speech is rather easy (with microphones), but movement is not. It could probably involve a device that could suspend a body and a suit capable of tracking it's movements (the tracking part already exists). The suit could also apply pressure on demand, to give inputs to the touch sense. I think it's already possible to create that, but it would be VERY expensive. Would probably feel very awkward too.
Another option for movement is "capturing" brain signals. This is also something that is possible today, but is not quite there yet (or we would be seeing lots of brain controlled prosthetic arms and legs around).
Well, the processing power to handle all those data is not something you can buy at eBay either. Computers would have to go a long way to make it accessible.
So, the thing is, if someone happens to find cheaper and better ways to interact with those body interfaces, we could be living in a game in no time! Maybe a couple hundred years from now :p
I do not believe in such a hypothesis. If you have a dream, make it real, NOW.
My dream is to make an innovative MMORPG. I am already working on it.
a language analysis tool where you can simulate the behaviour of the chips and memory, you can see the AST of your custom grammar or existing languages as well as stepping through the different compiler optimizations and actually can snapshot a the memory and see the chip logic gates and registers.... so you can understand the codes and vms from low level to executions cycle by cycle or execution by execution :) just giving fresh students the tools to really see whats going on and learn about the correlations and such things :D
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Saurabh Ariyan
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An automation for primary diagnosis based on the symptoms and providing prescription in case of non-fatal drug.