<story><title>Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on?</title><text>In the 2020s most old generation people are retiring and not only the replacement generations smaller but there is gap in generational knowledge transfer. What do you think is important tech out there in which are we are losing our collective knowledge and hard won wisdom?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>commoddity</author><text>I agree. Anyone every play the educational mode in Assassins Creed Origins?&lt;p&gt;It basically took that game&amp;#x27;s massive, amazing and detailed map of ancient Egypt, removed all the combat and replaced it with what was essentially a huge virtual museum. You could go run around Egypt, go inside the temples &amp;amp; pyramids, explore the farms, cities and the Nile delta and listen to audio clips and view slideshows about actual Egyptian history.&lt;p&gt;It was legitimately really amazing and educational. It essentially piggybacked off of the colossal amount of work that goes into creating a AAA open world game&amp;#x27;s map and repurposed it to create something educational.&lt;p&gt;Would love to see more of that type of thing.</text></item><item><author>iammjm</author><text>Educational games. Hear me out. The way we teach us basically how we did it 500 years ago. This is stupid, boring and not scalable. We dont have enough teachers, attention span is short, education is costly. So we need something that scales, is fun and involves all types of media plus gamifies education. Think Skyrim or GTA meets MS Encarta</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tareqak</author><text>It was released as a free update to the base game, but it is also available as a standalone title at a price lower than the base game: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;store.steampowered.com&amp;#x2F;app&amp;#x2F;775430&amp;#x2F;Discovery_Tour_by_Assassins_Creed_Ancient_Egypt&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;store.steampowered.com&amp;#x2F;app&amp;#x2F;775430&amp;#x2F;Discovery_Tour_by_...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on?</title><text>In the 2020s most old generation people are retiring and not only the replacement generations smaller but there is gap in generational knowledge transfer. What do you think is important tech out there in which are we are losing our collective knowledge and hard won wisdom?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>commoddity</author><text>I agree. Anyone every play the educational mode in Assassins Creed Origins?&lt;p&gt;It basically took that game&amp;#x27;s massive, amazing and detailed map of ancient Egypt, removed all the combat and replaced it with what was essentially a huge virtual museum. You could go run around Egypt, go inside the temples &amp;amp; pyramids, explore the farms, cities and the Nile delta and listen to audio clips and view slideshows about actual Egyptian history.&lt;p&gt;It was legitimately really amazing and educational. It essentially piggybacked off of the colossal amount of work that goes into creating a AAA open world game&amp;#x27;s map and repurposed it to create something educational.&lt;p&gt;Would love to see more of that type of thing.</text></item><item><author>iammjm</author><text>Educational games. Hear me out. The way we teach us basically how we did it 500 years ago. This is stupid, boring and not scalable. We dont have enough teachers, attention span is short, education is costly. So we need something that scales, is fun and involves all types of media plus gamifies education. Think Skyrim or GTA meets MS Encarta</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisweekly</author><text>Related tangent - I&amp;#x27;d love to see more games (whether or not explicitly &amp;quot;educational&amp;quot;) that are more collaborative and less focused on violence. I remember playing GTA and enjoying its then-new (to me, at least) open-world dynamics and imagining a more peaceful version or mode where you&amp;#x27;d play the role of an EMT or field surgeon, running around helping people and saving lives or something.</text></comment>