Are there things we should be doing now to take advantage of future technology. What I mean would be something like people who bank umbilical cord fluid for potential future stem cell usages. Another example would be if we had taken a lot of pictures of a historical building which is now gone, then we could use modern day photogrammetry to make a 3d model of it. A potential current example, suppose we recorded a ton of our day to day vocal communication. Then, some day in the future, a new machine learning algorithm could make use of the data. So what I am looking for is whether there are any potential 'missed opportunity' of this type we should be considering (posted similar question on futurology subreddit).
And the complementary question: What should we not do because it will likely be superfluous in the future?
Examples:
Learning all kinds of facts (this is already mostly the case thanks to search engines)
Learning any languagse (except possibly a mainstream language like English if you speak only an endangered language)
Tagging images on your hard-drive
Entring data in a highly structured form for 'easy' retrieval (like person data as firs/last name, age, occupation...)
More can be inferred from http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/lor/discussion_of_c...
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