Ask HN: What's an up-and-coming field, media, or technology
Hey HN,
What is something that you see has a lot of potential but is less known? It could be anything: a new technology, a style of music, heck, even a new species of bug that has been discovered. I'd love to learn about new ideas or discoveries people are working on.
WebRTC and decentralization. I mean actual decentralization and not crypto bullshit or web services.
The web is built on the pattern of servers sending files, or dynamically generated files, around to clients. Those files or programs that generate them always, 100% of the time, reside on servers. It may not be your server or there may be code-less or no-code abstractions but ultimately it’s coming from a server.
Can you elaborate on what you envision decentralization is? I can’t imagine decentralized anything on the web without servers. Blockchain is a distributed database much like tor, right? But those run on servers and one could argue a distributed DB is still centralized just spread out. That sounds dumb when I read it but a distributed DB is treated as a centralized entity, just replicating data. Not trying to be thick or snarky, I just don’t get what decentralized is supposed to look like.
RNAi
Deep-sea mining
The decision economy
Any technology that substitues niche, but critical, fossil fuel derivatives
What’s the decision economy?
bio medical engineering