Ask HN: What Are the World Biggest Problems or Opportunities?

[rokhayakebe]

[fiftyacorn]

Health care in the US - I keep reading about health care bankruptcy in US, and worry about implications in UK as our politicians are pushing this model

Politics in the information age - linked to fake news

University costs - university needs an overhaul. I mean all these unis pushing courses online with covid for the same price. There has to be opportunity there

[giantg2 → fiftyacorn]

I'd generalize the politics comment as failing of educational systems to teach useful life skills, such as logic/philosophy of argument.

[mindcrime]

One source of thoughts on this topic:

https://www.un.org/en/sections/issues-depth/global-issues-ov...

[cpach]

Problem: Global warming

Opportunity: Find safe and stable sources of energy that scale

[NoRagrets]

Ageing.

[giantg2 → NoRagrets]

How so?

[NoRagrets → giantg2]

Mortality is what causes over population and depletion of resources.

[giantg2 → NoRagrets]

I think that would be delayed mortality and possibly the opposite of what they mean if discussing the depletion of resources.

Anyways, most of the regions where demographics are shifting to a larger proportion of older persons also have much lower birthrates.

[probinso → giantg2]

I think the implication is that we do it

[giantg2 → probinso]

I'm sorry but this comment doesn't clear anything up for me.

[cpach → giantg2]

Some people, like Aubrey de Grey, are researching how aging works. The goal is to slow down the process of aging in order to allow humans to live longer.

See e.g. https://leapsmag.com/anti-aging-pioneer-aubrey-de-grey-peopl...

[jz_ → cpach]

> The goal is to slow down the process of aging in order to allow humans to live longer.

I think he'd say living longer for remaining disease-free would just be a happy side-effect.

That said, there many companies working on aging biology now: http://agingbiotech.info/companies/

[giantg2 → cpach]

Isn't this going to present more of a problem - increasing the population on a resource confined planet?

[cpach → giantg2]

Good question. To me it feels like science fiction. But who knows. Maybe it’ll work.

[numpad0]

space

[probinso]

Capitalism

Imperialism

Poverty