Needle Mover Ideas
Ambitious ideas that could meaningfully accelerate progress for civilization.
- Nuclear fusion that hits net-positive energy
- 3D printing fully functional human organs
- Digital brain interfaces
- Externalize ideas directly from your mind
- Upload knowledge streams back into your brain
- Eradication of major diseases
- Tuberculosis
- Polio
- And other entrenched global killers
- Faster-than-light travel
- Dyson-sphere-scale solar collection in orbit
- Super-sonic overland trains (Hyperloop-tier speed)
- Thought-driven control for software and hardware
- Inertial protection systems for humans
- Artificial skeletons or exosuits to absorb extreme G-forces
- Opens new opportunities for motorsports and aerospace
- Underwater cities
- Retinal lens for professional and recreational use
Civilizational Leaps
- Constructing Dyson spheres to capture entire stellar outputs
- Molecular assemblers building anything atom by atom
- Self-replicating robots seeding infrastructure across the galaxy
- Permanent colonies in other dimensions or parallel universes