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Introducing the Convergent Research Gap Map

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Today we’re releasing v1.0 of our Fundamental Development Gap Map, a new web portal for exploring the landscape of bottlenecks holding back science and the fundamental technologies to solve them. You can jump in right away at gap-map.org, and read more about where this database came from below. In our first post, we set out a vision for accelerating beneficial scientific R&D: Humanity could increase its rate of scientific and technological advancement by driving free energy into about 100 especially catalytic projects within reach. If there are ~20 fundamental fields of science, and within each there are ~3-5 pivotal elements of scientific infrastructure that the existing science establishment can’t or won’t build, that's an unmet need on the order of ~100 bridge-scale projects. If each costs $20-50M for a massively enabling sprint, that’s a few $B in input that could unlock trillions in societal value as outputs via accelerated R&D progress. How do you find those pivotal projects? In

Introducing the Convergent Research Gap Map Explore v1.0 of our interactive survey of the fundamental development projects landscape Adam Marblestone , Mary Wang , and Joseph Fridman Apr 15, 2025 85 2 18 Share Today we’re releasing v1.0 of our Fundamental Development Gap Map, a new web portal for exploring the landscape of bottlenecks holding back science and the fundamental technologies to solve them. You can jump in right away at gap-map.org , and read more about where this database came from below. Subscribe Bridging gaps in fundamental R&D In our first post , we set out a vision for accele

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