Some people love writing lists.
Here’s two I came across recently that I found interesting:
Simon Wilson’s 8 Ways to Disrupt the Housing Industry (A sub-list of his 6 things to fix in Auckland)
Enable the not-for-profits
More social housing
Raise the environmental standards
Implement universal design
Prefabricate
Build smaller homes.
Adopt a village model for apartment block design
More diversity in the industry
Seth Godin’s list of 23 important problems to solve in the coming decades.
High efficiency, sustainable method for growing sufficient food, including market-shifting replacements for animals as food
High efficiency, renewable energy sources and useful batteries (cost, weight, efficiency)
Effective approaches to human trafficking
Carbon sequestration at scale
Breakthrough form for democracy in a digital age
Scalable, profitable, sustainable methods for small-scale creators of intellectual property
Replacement for the University
Useful methods for enhancing, scaling or replacing primary education, particularly literacy
Beneficial man/machine interface (post Xerox Parc)
Cost efficient housing at scale
Useful response to urban congestion
Gene therapies for obesity, cancer and chronic degenerative diseases
Dramatic leaps of AI interactions with humans
Alternatives to paid labor for most humans
Successful interactions with intelligent species off Earth
Self-cloning of organs for replacement
Cultural and nation-state conflict resolution and de-escalation
Dramatically new artistic methods for expression
Useful enhancements to intellect and mind for individuals
Shift in approach to end-of-life suffering and solutions for pain
Enhanced peer-to-peer communication technologies approaching the feeling of telepathy
Transmutation of matter to different elements and structures
Off-planet outposts