One of the things I am trying to see if one day it would help... is applications of blockchain technology into the science world.

If so, this would influence directly where I currently work and my job specifically, due the fact of supporting thousands of users on a supercomputer.

AI is becoming more popular, even if many don't know yet what to do with it in most cases, but the interesting part is that it bring others attentions. And that sometimes helps development to take or consider different paths.

So, in some sense, beneficial to Science.