I turned 100 old science fiction books into a database of 6,222 startup ideas

We don't need new ideas, we need to actually work towards fulfilling the ideas that we already have and are wildly popular. Like not worrying about healthcare, or spending less time at work doing bullshit to prop up social structures instead of spending time with our families, or learning something, or taking care of our community.

Or more third spaces where leaving the house doesn't cost $80

Or housing being affordable

All these are human problems and startups could help with them, but so long as the desire for ideas is a means to the end of making their founders and investors individually wealthy and powerful, we will continue on this treadmill of wondering why people are more stressed, have fewer kids, don't have any optimism. Its the core conceit of this forum, built by ycombinator, that giving a fuck about each other is second to money - they used to hide it, but everyone knows exactly who they are today.

Fun! The “top” ideas are mostly just obvious (eg “maybe we should work on alignment?”), useless for now (eg lunar maps), or just implausible for now.

Still, it’s a) quite thought provoking nonetheless, and b) pretty fun to scroll through as a scifi lover!