I feel like we go round and round, dealing with the same problems that our ancestors had to deal with.<p>What I see here is part of the human condition. Pitfalls that "most" people are doomed to repeat. People are born with similar ways of thinking. I would propose that intuition is most always wrong. This is one reason we must educate people. Unfortunately, Memories and Communication are not precise. And I realize that all job fields require some sort of education or training.<p>There exist Complex ideas, technologies, material things (eg. biology): that are not comprehensible by one single person at a time. This is why we have groups of people that make products and not individuals.<p>Also people age, lose their usefulness. If only you could educate people who would increase their intelligence, and never die.<p>We live in a world of conclusions based on facts. A conclusion can be wrong, a fact cannot. News media, blogs, conversation are an exchange of conclusions. We can't communicate in just facts because we can't work with that much data at a time.<p>If only, one could link to another: a computer or another brain and be able to access knowledge and its accuracy. Is this possible, I don't know.<p>There are many problems worth fixing (but probably won't any time soon):
a phonetic english alphabet with a different letter for each unique sound,
Human Language to AI command compiler,
optimize human mental process (engineer the human mind),
build biospheres in inhospitable regions of the Earth,
Fast internet that is cheap (100Mb/s (and I mean Megabit)) -> HD remote controlled robots,
Tactile feedback for TV just like we have visual and sound,
Engineer ways of rejuvenating/regeneration of humans so we can control our lifespan,
Creating or finding what makes humans "sentient" or "have a soul" or "conscious" or "self-aware"
-> Preserve this "consciousness" without a body for long trips of space flight