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Whys

• Is gaming the next large-scale form of human cooperation (like money, religion, and nations)?
  
• How does capturing data about behavior change behavior (are you shaping the data, or is the data shaping you)?
  
• Why aren’t there new pricing models?
  
• Why do we hire individuals instead of teams?
  
• Why is hiring still mostly pattern matching?
  
• Why is college four years long?
  

• Abductive reasoning technologies 
  
• Large-scale simulations
  
• Affective computing
  
• Minimum viable communities
  
• Pay for value vs. pay for service
  
• Sustainable investing (returns not based on debt that future populations have to pay back into)
  
• Augmented intelligence platforms
  
• 21st-century design
  
• Volumetric data & edge compute
  
• Synthetic media
  
• Layering digital intelligence into physical structures
  

• Robotics and autonomy
  
• Generative Applications
• Esports & gaming
  
• Cohort-based learning
  
• New frontiers of manufacturing (synthetic biology, “warehouse zero,” and sustainability)
  
• Non-permissive logistics
  
• Rethinking urban environments
  
• Blockchain governance
  
• Tech for aging populations
  
• Decision science
  
• Decentralizing national security operations
  
• Outer space
  
• No-code rapid prototyping
  

• Humans and robots working together
  
• Cameras/sensors that count things
  
• Understanding intent from imagery
  
• Insurance in space
  
• Consumer-owned career experience records (Apple HealthKit, but for work)
  
• Metaverse for learning
  
• Mapping social networks
  
• AI integration / AI design
  
• Decision anticipation
  
• Professional networking & mentorship
  
• Expert networks
  
• Loneliness
  
• Layoffs
  
• Ageism
  
• Getting rid of résumés
  
• Future of work (money, meaning, discretion, learning, connection)
  
• Revitalizing legacy cities