I have a few too, although I don't know who is going to read them since there are over 1k comments. Here goes nothing.

1) I'm pretty sure a final cure for HIV-1 and better detection + treatment for AIDS will come up in the next 4 years. Also, the Pre and Post exposure drugs will probably become efficient for infections older than 48 hours. The things with HIV/AIDS research is that a discovery on one end of the disease yields results on all of them in a short amount of time.

2) Populism and nationalism will start to die out because gen X and Z are brought up in a more data-available world. They'll probably have a more Hans Rosling/Steven Pinker attitude towards the world than a Trump/Johnson one.

3) Ethiopia will become the powerhouse of the continent, prompting migration from all over. If an open and/or tolerant attitude is kept towards neighbors, it might generate a ripple effect across the whole region - an effect consisting in stability. That's what Israel could've done if a dual-state solution was obtained, or Iran if the CIA hadn't generate a coup to remove the democratic prime minister because BP Oil couldn't buy cheap resources anymore. I really hope no one fucks up this time.

4) Poorer countries will outpace the more developed ones in terms of digital governance, administration and bureaucracy since they'll start implement administrative reforms with the current available tools that have the power to reach anyone - which are all online. Current administrations from developed countries still need to overcome the integration nightmare of current systems.

5) Public photography and filming will get intensely regulated worldwide as the laws haven't been adapted to the smartphone era as well as the digital privacy era. For example: currently, photographers are allowed to snap photos of you in public without asking for consent in most of the countries. Then they sell them off for 100 dollars on Getty Images. Then you see yourself in a prostate ad from an obscure magazine sold in a mall in Indiana. Life's complicated.

that's a nice thing you shared there

Honestly, I don't see any relevancy in the statement of this project. Using kindles and other ebook readerds for about 6 years and always asked to recommend one, I've learned that ebook readers are one of the most realiable devices ever built, so you'd better buy a used one and take it off the market than produce yourself another devices honestly no one needs at the moment. A lot of the people buying ebook readers usually end up ditching them just because their 'reading hype' didn't catch on, or their company's read and roll program (we have Bookster in Romania) is cheaper to use (as it's free) than buying and converting books all the time.

But, ebook readers are cheap and easy to use (if bought used), even kindle's amazon. Since you have a kindle e-mail address you can just use an app to convert every non-kindle-format file into a compliant one, that's it if you don't want to use Calibre via USB or WebServer. I use eBooker on my Android phone.

This is true. I still use occasionally a Kindle DX I bought in 2010. Sure the battery lasts only for a couple of days now, and it has always been slow, but it still works, and is a great reading device. It even still has free 3G internet.

Though to be honest I much prefer my 12” ipad pro with high refresh rate for reading papers.

Bill Gates is perfectly aware of the fact that a good part of Microsoft's employees started learning about computers on illegal copies of Windows, for example. And it couldn't have happen otherwise - at least for non OECD or 1st world countries.

Whole countries started to be Microsoft clients from having installed pirate Windows and Office on every PC. At least two generations of coders were nurtured on that ("Developers! Developers! Developers!"). Also hordes of other professionals like designers and animators (Adobe, Autodesk etc).

Correct, my people too (Romanians)

For those of you who didn't read, the article states:

"The company’s internal “marketing standards” prohibit it from promoting tobacco products with youth-oriented celebrities or “models who are or appear to be under the age of 25.”

So the age limit in discussion is self imposed by the company, which is 25. The 'young influencer' mentioned is 21 years old.

I don't see this as anything above a journalistic sensationalism.

Sure, but the article also states:

"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last month decided it would allow sales of the IQOS device in the United States after a two-year review process in which Philip Morris repeatedly assured the regulator that it would warn young people away from the product."

I'm sure Phillip Morris made the FDA well aware of their "self-imposed" age limit when pushing for FDA approval. I doubt Phillip Morris introduced this age limit because they suddenly found their moral compass or started to hate making money. I'm sure they use it to get regulators off their back, so this definitely isn't a good look for them.

She was 21 years old. Not 16. Not 17. Not 18. Not 19. Not even 20. But, 21 years old.

Twenty-one.

If they felt that 21 was ok, they could have made that their limit. The point is that they used the 25 age limit to push through legislation and then. Immediately broke it when it came time to push the product.

You're wrong, the smoking pen holds about 5-6 mins pers cigarette (Heets), and the device holds around 20 or more pen recharges.

I've been smoking it since March 2017. I'm on my 2nd device. I've been smoking regular cigarettes since 2010 before IQOS.

No I'm not.

It's just depends on a person's smoking style.

It was not delivering a satisfactory puff for me when it still had a charge, then just fell flat because the dimunitive battery couldn't take more.

I also never achieved anywhere close to 20 recharges of the pen. More like 7-9.

This was not acceptable, especially as the tobacco itself was pipe-grade, much better than the usual nitro paper one finds in cigarettes.

In fact I extracted all the unused tobacco and smoked it in my old pipes.

After that, I'm mixing my own ecig juice and that's much healthier and nicotine doses are much more controllable.

Also: to hell with Philip Morris.

A device that recharges the pen only 7-9 times is broken and can be changed under warranty for no charge. Either that, or your device was a replica, seriously.

I highly doubt someone's smoking style affects the battery power of the smoking pen, because, if you smoke from it like a train engine, it's just got nothing to burn anymore and shuts off - like a normal cigarette. There's nothing related to the battery itself.