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My first career was in standard finance/tech and left me with enough flexibility to try to do something I’m really passionate about.
I have rigorously followed the academic literature and commercial development of recycling tech. It has been a disheartening journey. Recycling doesn’t work as well as people think. Promising solutions like plasma gasification had lots of engineering and economic challenges. A recent push in Europe for landfill mining went nowhere.
What is really needed is a single stream solution where almost any material can go in the front end, and out the back end comes useful elemental products or inert products.
Is anyone working on long-shot technology that would do this? If so, I would like to network. I’m not interested in something to make incremental changes around the edges. I’m interested in the type of tech that would be revolutionary.
It’s obvious to everyone here that services like google search, social media, and YouTube have had user experience vastly degraded in the hunt for ad revenue.
Apps and sites that should have long ago perished are able to linger on like ghosts, endangering user data (MySpace still exists).
And yet this earnings quarter, we learned that companies are doing better than we expected. Meta is growing its user base and google is increasing its clicks. Despite the wishes of the media, twitter is doing OK. Dilapidated app companies continue to raise funds.
What is going on? What would cause the ad-funded ecosystem to fundamentally change?
Looking for insight from people on the front lines.