Serious question:
With all the bullpucky in our current tech product news cycles, what's a device or service you would *actually* like to see developed, that isn't currently being promoted or getting the funding it deserves?
Besides the mini teleportation device that sits in the bottom of your coffee cup, refilling it when the pressure gets too low.
I want a cheap, very rugged, long range electric cargo bike. That I can ride to the electric tram line station, that replaces the road to my place.
Widespread Rural and Suburban electric light rail.
Oh, now that is a beautiful dream. I'm guessing the limiting agent is the electric component, and even though folks are excited by advances in sodium-ion alternatives to the perils of lithium, the sodium-ion battery would have to be heavier, so... more research is most certainly needed to arrive at a rugged, light-weight workaround!
@MLClark we desperately need news or news analysis services that are fact based, that include in their process context, objective disagreement where it exists, discusses their process along the way (citations, identifying fallacies & propaganda techniques used etc.); coverage that transcends duality. A service that leverages the speech recognition and search capabilities of AI for real time fact checking, but human moderation to prevent AI errors from being transmitted as fact. How about you?
Oh, is that all? 😂
Re: media - I've mentioned before that I think top-down article structure, and all the centralized authority it invokes, is part of the problem. There are a few formats that present community context and discourse in better ways (e.g., Medium lets users highlight & lend context to main article content), but we still need a huge paradigm shift with respect to how we visualize authority.
(Maybe go back to wiki first principles, and rebuild the net from there?)
@MLClark I‘ll fall back to my stock line “a dog can dream”.
@MLClark: It'd be neat to have an consumer-end AI that won't allow posts online that are factually inaccurate, and by that I mean that are demonstrably, independently verifiably factually inaccurate. it's that or it attaches warnings to posts made that are inaccurate.
That's totally fantasy, of course, but a guy can dream. An upshot of it would be that loads of conspiracy theorists would immediately have heart attacks.
Does that count as chaotic good on an alignment chart? 😂 Or do we need to add "diabolical good" as an option?
@MLClark: Chaotic good.
@thedisasterautist @MLClark I thought they actually had that on old Twitter?
Don't know if it was AI or just crowd-sourced. But they once flagged explanatory warnings on such content.
@S_r_stone @MLClark: They didn’t have it so much as they had community notes, though at one point very late in the game and not long before the takeover they had something that would give you a heads up if you posted a link to an article that had been flagged more than some number of times by users as false.
*Besides @DarkAlfred, of course (thank you @CanisPundit!), and all its other glorious possible incarnations.