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Just fund all the open source projects. Like, all of them.

Energy storage. We could already produce all the power we need and more using solar power, the problem is that we can't store it in an efficient energy dense form. The word efficient there is doing some heavy lifting. It needs be comparable or better than our methods today in terms of cost, safety, energy density, climate impact. If we could solve energy storage, it'd change society and technology dramatically.

Nuclear Fusion.

Clean nuclear energy

Get the plastic out of living organisms for fuck's sake

I'm not sure what technology I would choose, but surely it would be related to the climate change.

room temp superconductors

Can't decide if it should be penis enlargement or the cure for baldness... 🤔 ^/s^

Reverse osmosis and water filtration technology solutions

UPDATE: Also, why not focus on stopping money going towards cryptocurrency instead of AI. Sure, AI is not the greatest for some, but cryto is a scam every day of the week

Fusion power or cures for diseases.

Fusion power, should it work, would solve a lot of problems. Environmentally, in particular, but if we could get a decent distribution of reactors around the planet we’d alleviate food problems, water problems, and a whole bunch of suffering of one kind or another. Cheap power would help a lot.

Otherwise, anything to help cure diseases. Genetic, auto-immune, cancers, misfortune, whatever. Alleviate more suffering, let people live and work again.

Android catgirl maid robots

Cheap powerful graphics cards for all

Easily the education system at least here in America cuz it's dog shit. I honestly think there should be another year for high school just one more because kids are coming out of school completely unprepared for anything and I don't just mean common sense I mean jobs entry level jobs kids can't do because school didn't teach them the basics

Edit: I sat down now so I want to elaborate.

I really think schools should focus more on life skills cooking, home improvement, changing your tire and brakes. Everyday stuff you'll run into but a lot of people don't know how to do. Just doing it once or twice gives people the confidence that they can do it and can maybe do more. That's my two cents, that I don't have

I want a machine that works me out while I sleep. I'm talking full body ripped (to my desired levels) all while I get my sleep for the night.

Just electrically stimulate my muscles constantly while keeping me in a deep sleep for 8 hours straight please.

I wanna wake up every morning feeling like I just left the gym after a solid full body work out.

Atmospheric carbon sequestration

Collective human intelligence augmentation = Computer-aided collaboration = Crowd thinking.
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

Climate change

I'm sure you'll get a bunch of respectable answers, but keep in mind that secretly, everyone is actually thinking sex robots.

Nuclear fusion, right? That's got to be the big one.

The Internet Archive - long term storage of as many books/films/music/journals/games as possible.

Cultured Meat. Without relying on any major breakthroughs, a price competitive with "traditional" meat is feasible with a few rather reasonable and conservative assumptions and developments. Dropping cows as meat source globally alone might be sufficient to slow down further climate change significantly.

In everything that has a realistic chance to stop or reverse climate change