Ask HN: What are some major world problems that are still unsolved?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43308355

by vednig • 1 year ago

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not_your_vase• 1 year ago

Wealth distribution on all economic levels.

(And captchas)

dave4420• 1 year ago

War, crime, climate change.

ggm3• 1 year ago

Debt bondage

ggm3• 1 year ago

Delivery of Internet to the last 3b people

sejje3• 1 year ago

Are these people in remote regions?

Didn't starlink just solve those logistics?

ggm3• 1 year ago

That's both not fully deployed and a political problem. Polio and Measles are "solved" except for politics. As is hunger and poverty.

overu589• 1 year ago

Truth, morality, human rights, an incorruptible righteous rule of law.

kstenerud• 1 year ago

Slavery. Organized crime. Corruption of governments. Imperialism. Economic inequality. Nuclear proliferation. The coming waves of climate refugees. Insufficient water. The coming crop failures in about a decade that will kill 1/4 of the world's population.

marto1• 1 year ago

..and loads and loads of politicians that pretend they can solve problems above while shamelessly grifting.

fuzzfactor• 1 year ago

All of them.

One of the things that exacerbates the others is not just the lingering effects of superstition, but its growth rate which can still sometimes outpace the rate of civilization.

MrGuts• 1 year ago

The fact that people who think they know it all really piss off those of us who do.

sejje3• 1 year ago

All humans die, and IMO it's just a knowledge issue. We probably have sufficiently advanced tech to implement a solution.

mdp2021• 1 year ago

While I'd really, despereately like Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln and many others to be here today to give opinion,

do not forget death is not just a problem but also a solution.

sejje3• 1 year ago

Yes, it has ramifications in every direction of course.

I suppose we'll still kill each other, even if medical advances make unintentional death unlikely.

A_D_E_P_T• 1 year ago

The greatest technical ones are:

- Countering aging / human rejuvenation.

- Atmospheric carbon capture and utilization.

- Strong materials / bringing materials up to their theoretical strengths. (The theoretical strength of fiberglass is ~40GPa; the best samples generally measure at ~5GPa.)

Yet it's the non-technical challenges surrounding governance, how to handle social media, how to deal with falling birthrates, etc., that are much more pressing.

OgsyedIE• 1 year ago

Peak oil. Everybody stopped talking about it in the late 00s when it was discovered that shale wasn't inaccessible after all, but now every shale patch except the Permian has already peaked and the first derivative of the Permian output is plummeting.

keernan• 1 year ago

Violence

Ask HN: What are some major world problems that are still unsolved?

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