In no particular order:
Education technology:
- How can you improve efficacy and efficiency of education?
- ~10% efficiency gain = 1 year of skipped school over 12 years of K12 (!!!)
- What does lifelong education look like beyond K12, college? What does retraining look like?
- How do you improve student engagement & enjoyment in the classroom?
Government technology:
- How can you make society function more efficiently + effectively through technology?
- What technology should be private vs public?
- How can we make it easier to build great software for the government?
- Should the government be able to acquire tech companies?
Virtual & augmented reality:
- How will these devices make computing more accessible?
- What infrastructure is required to make this technology successful?
Tech policy:
- How should we deal with mass job loss due to automation?
- How should we tackle tech + social media driven political polarization?
Community, belonging, & mental health?
- How can you help people develop deeper, more meaningful relationships?
- What does the next generation of social networks look like?
- How can you mitigate the negative effects of social media?