Food for Thought

• My Power Plant
  The Personal Computer revolution fades while the Personal Power Plant revolutions begins.
• The End of the Bandwidth Rush
• Encrypted Broadcast Fallacy
  Attempts to get mass populations to authenticate themselves for the sake of their own entertainment will always fail
• Superior Obsolescence
  When hot technology becomes generic, it seems glitzy features outweigh reliability and ease of use
• The Cost of Freedom and Technology Proliferation
  How The World Trade Center Disaster tests our notion of how to make powerful technology accessible
• Plague or Foolish Slaughtering Tragedy?
  Slaughtering plague infected victims may be counter productive
• Is Java a Virus?
  An object oriented, compiled AND interpreted language? ... is this some kind of a joke?

In the Works ... [edit]

• Methane Capture
  Excess methane in the atmosphere, even more than CO2, is said to contribute significantly to global warming. However methane is directly combustable whereas CO2 is not.  A radical approach to reduce global warming then would be to build wind powered methane capture devices and just burn the captured methane to produce energy.  Its a win win - removes methane from the atmosphere and produces green energy at the same time.
• Flying Car: "what the world needs now, is a new kind of transport, cause the old kind just bores me to death" - sing to melody of Teen Angst by Cracker . In related news:
  • Fuel-less Gravity Powered Flight
  • Nuclear Electric Propulsion
  • moller
  • X PRIZE
  • AntiGravity (recently debunked)
• Its the weather, stupid
  What makes certain parts of the planet attract business and talent.
• Storage Locker Farm Dilemma: plague of the Biosphere or prelude to the affordable housing of tomorrow?
• Deep Space Expansion: perhaps the recent difficulties of the scientific community to easily determine the age of the universe are due to a still to be discovered phenomenon by which electro-magnetic and gravitation energy degrade into new pockets of space between the stars. This making all attempts at justifying the Big Bang by a guess of the age of the Universe totally irrelevant since the very nature of energy may be causing new space to be created. In related news:
  • Detection of apparent anomalous forces: Impulse Gravity Generator
  • Black Holes linked to star creation: exosci. com
  • Anomalous Acceleration toward the Sun affecting Deep Space Probes: UniSci Daily News, Newsweek, Slashdot, American Institute of Physics
• Planetary Core Waste Disposal: Musing about how most toxic and difficult to recycle materials might be broken down by the Earth's hot magma
• Integrating biosphere use for urban, park, and wildlife ecosystems spaces - sketches and notes
• Coffee 21st Century Style
• California Neighbor Estrangement
  Why are Californians such unfriendly neighbors? Because the beautiful weather naturally incites people to have affairs! By keeping your relations with neighbors cool, you are compensating for the hormone encouragement of the really nice weather, which allows you to keep your atomic family intact. Do Greece, Italy, and Spain have similar neighbor relations?
• Genius in the Wings - how when new technology transitions into cheap media and distribution technology, new geniuses and forms emerge that would otherwise have gone unnoticed and undeveloped.

Coming Soon

• Attack Iraq?
  Would it be better just to take a chunk of Iraq and call it a UN protectorate. Then tell Iraq that anymore severe UN violations and we will expand the protectorate. Sort of like we just broke your left arm. Do it again and we break your right arm.
• Space Shuttle Columbia
  Space needs a face for our attempt to do the almost impossible.

Archive

• Wall Staring (Part I): Musing on challenges and possible futures for 3D graphics and the Internet

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