Imagine billions of small floating solar panels enabled with GPS, small motors, and fuel cells creating the world’s largest recharging station to charge electric freight liners. Surplus energy is used to break CO2 into C and O2. Panels also collectively lower albedo.
Imagine a network of nodes in sub-Saharan Africa connecting thousands of remote towns and villages otherwise globally disconnected, all sourced from local industry. These modular nodes become community resources and may be expanded with hundreds of different functional components. Think community IOT as an open public utility.
Imagine machine learning utilized to predict social and moral implications of emerging technology, thereby enabling responsive legislation where necessary and philanthropic deployments.
Imagine AI driven life coach which uses biometrics and sensory data to help guide personal decision making completely unique to each individual to help reach any number of personal goals.
Imagine a learning engine which can suggest entertainment options complementary to current learning objectives extending, abstracting and enhancing holistic learning.
Imagine using neurological interface devices to capture the mannerisms, personality, and emotional responsiveness of an individual and combining this with empirical data regarding personal life experiences. This can be digitally stored and used in any number of technical applications, such as the ability to create on demand interactive encounters with the deceased.
Imagine gamifying charitable giving in the form of micro-donations, where gamers solve real world problems through multiplayer gameplay and in-game purchases fund real world projects.
Imagine a social cryptocurrency redeemable for consumer items and a block chain journal of social contributions, essentially creating a new measure of personal worth and success. Think credit score for your contributions to society, independent of net worth in dollars.
Imagine an open source style social media which partners with its users bi-directionally sharing information, data , and revenue. Social media with a win-win social contract.
Imagine incentivizing healthy lifestyles through a preventative care credit scheme modeled using future savings as payouts, essentially building a bottom up pathway to universal healthcare.
Imagine transitive implementation of technology which bridges the gap between cultural and generational differences allowing vital social capital to flow between otherwise technologically divided groups.