Internet access using regular consumer devices (routers, smartphones, tablets, PCs etc) in P2P fashion. Using whatever physical tech available (primarily Bluetooth & Wi-Fi, but anything goes).
Think https-over-BitTorrent + mesh networking
This could do away with (some of) the centralized internet topology we have today.
Have AI automatically create described audio for old tv shows that apparently will never get a corporation to go back and add a described audio track even though there streaming.
Calculating the last digit of pi. That, or an alarm clock that recognizes when I press the "off" button instead of "snooze" while being still a zombie, and corrects it automatically. (But it should also recognize it when I press off intentionally)
I wrote my own alarm clock application (for the Apple Newton, about a million years ago) that addressed your need indirectly.
When the alarm went off, only the snooze button would work with a single tap. To turn the alarm off, you had to enter a numerical code.
And the snooze had a unique feature, too. Every time you hit it, it would snooze for half the time you got the last time you hit it, until that time reached 1 minute, at which point the snooze button stopped working entirely.
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This could do away with (some of) the centralized internet topology we have today.
When the alarm went off, only the snooze button would work with a single tap. To turn the alarm off, you had to enter a numerical code.
And the snooze had a unique feature, too. Every time you hit it, it would snooze for half the time you got the last time you hit it, until that time reached 1 minute, at which point the snooze button stopped working entirely.