What moonshots do you wish were being attempted?

Home printable chips. Its getting harder and harder to trust the hardware built by Intel/AMD etc to be backdoor free.

Democratizing chip manufacturing technology where one could print something at even 10x the cost would be tremendously helpful, for activists and those who speak truth to power.

Admittedly a half baked idea, but I wish someone was attempting to design an ornithopter as an alternative to drones for things like short-distance deliveries. Given higher power density batteries and advances in RL to find efficient flight control policies it seems plausibly possible, and it'd eliminate noise pollution concerns almost entirely. Plus, the mental image of a mechanical harpy eagle (payload capacity greater than body weight) perched on your window sill with your doordash is just too appealing to pass up.

"moonshot" is conservative for the following, but still:

- YOLO and let the economy crash fully for once

- Tempering the "line always goes up" attitude in computing tech that has mostly destroyed enrollments for other hard science / engineering courses

- Some sort of global communal breakthrough to render the lack of community participation / "I have friends but they're over there in the good guy lands" obsolete

- Successful, affordable DIY modular robotic assembly line

- Banning all aerated / carbonated / flavored drinks

- Robust, transparent, privacy-respecting media fingerprinting BEFORE AI content vomit takes over the internet

- Good-faith online shamanism (the truth is out there!)

- Transitioning the Earth and its inhabitants away from water-based energy sources (we split atoms to heat water to make electricity to heat water, etc). It's easy because it's THE universal solvent, but changing the input material makes all the other steps alien and (hopefully) less challenging for the environment / other humans to assimilate to.

How to write correct software. With software eating the world, it might be a good idea that the software eats correctly, without bugs.

Massive voter engagement. Like 90% voter participation.

Education without loan. One approach is documented here: https://loan-free-ed.neocities.org

Career alignment tools based on aptitude and interest.

It seems there's a very small number of people who like their job. All the aptitude stuff today doesn't seem very helpful. I wish I knew what I would be good at so I could stop hating my job and be successful.

Usable operating systems.

Automated mathematics, including the ability to read math papers and translate to formal proofs.

Fair tax. Today rich people/corps have many loop holes for avoiding tax. If that was fixed globally, individuals could pay less.

Build an insane amount of nuclear fission and renewable power: enough to power all energy needs with some left over for sequestration.

Affordable housing

Supersonic jets. Australia still has a bit more to overcome the tyranny of distance.

Government funded trips to Mars and Europa.

Space based gravitational wave sensor.

Fusion (this one has actually had fairly good progress lately).

A big coop at the FAANG level in tech.

Real time Google maps satellite view

Looking at using drone seed bombs to imitate natural farming from one straw revolution.

Worldwide automated government auditory

I'm trying to do it locally on a very tight budget and goodwill

Smart roads that commute locations of cars on then.

Space elevators.

Cheap mass production of carbon fiber.

A non-shitty e-bike