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Physics:
- WTF is Dark Matter?
- Where antimatter?
Chemistry/materials:
- Better batteries
- Better solar cells
Biology/medicine:
- What causes aging, and how do we stop it?
- Cure cancer
- More HHV vaccines
- Extinct malaria
Selfishly, as a biologist, I would like to see:
- Reconciliation of rates of evolution that scales from microevolution to macroevolution
- Accurate/reasonable estimation of lineage death rates for macroevolutionary diversification analysis
- (extension of previous) Reasonably estimate fossilization probability for (more) accurate clade age estimates
- Moving beyond phylogenetic trees (phylogenetic networks are a step in the right direction I think)
As a citizen of Earth, I would like to see:
- Actual plastic recycling that dramatically reduces the need for virgin petro-chemicals
- A 3D printer beyond plastics (I think this kind of a thing, but I would like it to scale for consumers and industry)
- A less massive battery that can be used for commercial flight
- Better earthquake detection
As a person who enjoys knee-deep sci-fi, I would like to see:
- FTL travel
- Futurama style heads-in-a-jar
- A Dyson sphere or swarm
- A hyperloop
As a (frustrated) scientist I would like to see:
- Society move beyond “societal utility” of scientific studies/discovery and embrace “science for the sake of science”
I want to see tiny batteries that can store a ton of power, or tiny engines that can pull energy from their surroundings. Would lead to soooooo many innovations.


