What new technology / software are you waiting for?

I would say (profitable) fusion power (other than the Sun's...), but that may be 20 or 2,000 or 2,000,000 years from now so...

I'll go with mind-controlling machines. I know the US military is already quite advanced in that regard (trained pilots can control helicopters, jets too iirc), we've all seen the monkey using a third mechanical arm after a few minutes of training, there's this game with the ball in a magnetic field... mind-controlling stuff is going to be immensely powerful. And so swell.

The human-machine interface (how fast we can transfer information into the machine, how fast we can intake what it outputs) is the weakest link in the chain. Improve that, and you massively improve our capabilities, our power to do "everything else". Imho. And it would be so cool to feel like Jedis or Q's hehe. And robotics, a "smart"-world IoT-enabled at every corner, and you get an idea of a totally surreal world for us.

This has me believing in nuclear energy again: .. www.moltexenergy.com .. Molten salt in tubes. Walk-away safe. Economics estimated cheaper than coal. Can burn existing wastes. Uses existing materials.

I'm waiting for feature-full postgres schema diff tool :) there are a few out there, some written in C (so difficult to contribute to) but none is feature-full.

current generation "VR" is pretty underwhelming imo - it's literally a 3d movie attached to your face, providing parallax but not depth of field. There are things like magic leap that have 2 focal planes, but I don't know how well they work in practice.

I'm waiting for real light field displays to come to market, which should have a much more compelling experience. Maybe in 10 years...

Would be nice to do more in VR -- waiting for high enough res for programming and photorealistic avatars for video chat.

Actually good videoconferencing. This means low-latency and high-resolution so that you can see micro-expressions on the participants' faces in real-time not lag-time.

This is more valuable than remote AR/VR.

a development tool chain to embed a Zig language application into an seL4 based unikernel image deployable interchangeably on AWS, Digital Ocean, etc.

an Intel-supported multi-platform open source ME disabler

an up-to-date untethered iOS jailbreak

peer to peer encrypted DNS

I will take one Neural Lace, please.