Category Archives: Ideas
A man-of-war on the virtual high seas
Pirate Bay is on trial, the latest on a string of such test trials. Once upon a time, people photocopied books from friends and exchanged cassette tapes. Nevertheless, those kinds of copies took time and money to make, and everytime … Continue reading
World peace
All that’s going on in the Middle East these days, it got me thinking. What would it actually take to resolve the conflict? Clearly, this is not an easy problem. If it was, it’d have been solved ages ago. Also, … Continue reading
Energy efficiency through transgenics
In a previous post, I wrote: There are many animals that see in the dark. If we could somehow extract this “night-seeing” property of animals and add it to our genome, then we could significantly reduce global warming! Think about … Continue reading
Open State
You’ve heard of Open Source, right? Why not Open State? It’s a simple idea. Your average western government consists of the following four elements: 1. The Politicians These are our elected representatives. They are members of a legislature. They are … Continue reading
A monopoly of magic
Religion sell magic: gods, demons, angels, miracles… Well, not quite: Religion does not sell real magic. Rather, it sells comfort and solidarity to those who want to believe in magic. You pay now, but you don’t get the magic now … Continue reading
Photosynth & HTM
Someone should put Numenta HTM and Photosynthtogether. I think HTM could speed up the process of finding associations between pictures, and probably also reduce the capacity demands. Just an educated guess, of course.
Global forum on politics
“Transparency” – There’s a word not often heard from the mouths of politicians, unless it’s directed at the opposition. Who are these people who govern us? We do not know. We know all too little about their beliefs, their goals, … Continue reading
“Realpolitik”: The Show
Idols, Big Brother, Fame Factory etc. Their effect on their public is clear: Disillusionment. It’s hard to stay spellbound by a person, by a celebrity, when you’ve seen and heard them bickering for hours on end on television. Sure, you … Continue reading
GM, a solution for global warming
Every now and then I read the news, and an interesting story catches my eye. Here’s an interesting one: Scientists at the company, Stemagen, which is based in San Diego, said Thursday that they were the first to use human … Continue reading
Evolutionary theory of intellectual property theft
I’ve been reading a lot of Pinker, Dennett and Dawkins (P.Diddy?) lately, so I’m in an evolutionary state of mind. Here’s a question that’s been troubling me for some time now: Why do people find it so easy to steal … Continue reading
The Tattoo conjecture
I had a few minutes to kill, so here’s my conjecture on the evolutionary history of tattoo’s. A long time ago, before the dawn of civilization, a big strong guy, at the prime of his life (he is probably all … Continue reading
Tamakickas
Another interesting idea I’ve been playing around with: The Tamakicka (plural: Tamakickas), the anti-social networking device. It’s a melt of Tamagotchi and kickin’ ass. You wear a device on your key-chain that beeps when you are close to a person … Continue reading
Rest in greenpeace
While driving the other day, I had a revolutionary idea: Each one of us, as an individual, could offset our own carbon emissions by paying a poor person in a developing country to commit suicide. By doing so, not only … Continue reading