Honestly, I find some of these points quite disturbing. And a lot of them are not a matter of technology.<p><i>13. Keep track of where everybody in my team is physically right now.</i>
I don't want to work with you, ever. 40 hours a week are for the team, sure, but during the remaining 128 you don't have any business in my life. What you propose is creepy.<p><i>25. Be able to take a course online and get graded -- and get a diploma that means something. Education is really ripe for disruption: Coursera is OK, but we need to invent Stanford 2.0</i>
For a diploma to mean something, what you need is not to make the courses better, or harder to pass, or whatever you're thinking; what you need is to convince your employer that you have the required skills for your job. The diploma may or may not have something to do with it, but in any case it's your employer's criterion. What you want may happen over time, but it's definitely not a matter of technology.<p><i>26. Be able to sell my advice online. It's worth something and I should have some way to monetize it.</i>
Again, it's other people, not you, who will judge whether your advice is valuable. Aside from that, it's not like it's difficult to become some kind of consultant.<p><i>30. Get a discount from the federal government for being healthy. Fat people should pay more taxes because they cost society more. This means some approved weigh in and testing centers.</i>
What.<p><i>31. Be able to get a $100 MRI. It can be done for this price.</i>
There are a LOT of things that will cost you far, far, far more than what they cost [EDIT: to clarify, that I mean is: far than what they cost <i>to your provider</i>]. This is pretty basic economy, IMHO. Also you may get it for free when you actually need it, if you live in a place with a sane health system (i.e., not the USA).<p>But yeah, as jokoon said in <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8648325" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8648325</a>, most of those "problems" arise from politics and economy. I suspect that a few of them have actually been tried, and either they're doing fine but in a local scale, or they failed.