Articles - 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?

Topics - In the Works ... [edit]

• Gift Based Role Reversal
  
  Imagine a prize/goal seeking party game that forces men to behave as women and visa versa.
   
• Insects/Birds Organically Deposit Building Materials Where Needed
   
• Open Source and the iPad
  
  What Apple has achieved is to break through _part_ of the strangle hold the mobile carriers have on the wireless market, and effectively destroy propietary content formats that enforce freedom constraining digital rights management on content. Anyone can get the free tools Apple provides and develop an iPhone/iPod application. Publishing is easy if you steer clear of smut in your application, and Apple doesn't care if your application source code is free.
  
  Expect you could find some sort of hack to replace Apple's IOS with some Linux kernel, but if the carriers won't recognize your signals after doing so what's the point. Same thing with Android, which is essentially just as tightly control by Google as IOS is by Apple.
  
  Lastly, iPad and its smaller ancestor iPod Touch in many ways show that we still don't know how to let people use wireless devices effectively ... the user interface and core applications are still in wild flux, yet both of these devices easily do end runs around the wireless carriers by using uncontrolled WiFi where possible to connect to the big pond. Linux WILL NEVER surpase the UI wonk's at Apple and other commercial companies, and open source WILL NEVER directly bust open the locks wireless carriers and Hollywood have on access and content like a company like Apple can with its iTunes store.
  
  When content and bandwidth are free, then the highly efficient open source model will assert itself properly in the wireless space. Until then open source will steadily increase its dominance on the backend side of the Internet, but it will continue to need Apple to 'make money' by destroying the profit motive of closed wireless networks and content providers.
  
  Elsewhere: opensource.com
   
• Buddhism, Just another 12 step program?
  
  Recently I've been attending some Buddhist prayer meetings with a friend and our kids.  It then struck me that thousands of years ago Buddhists essentially pioneered the twelve step program.  I mean come on, The Four Noble Truths + The Eightfold Path, that's twelve baby.  eerie coincidence?  I think not.
   
• 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.
  
  Elsewhere:
  • CO2 capture structure
  • Sun light + CO2 = Algae Fuel
• 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 .
  
  Elsewhere:
  • Fuel-less Gravity Powered Flight
  • Nuclear Electric Propulsion
  • moller
  • X PRIZE
• 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?
  
  Elsewhere:
  • Shrinking Cities
• 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, The Planetary Society
• 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.
• 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.
   

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