diff org/ideas.org @ 95:70c493a87a7e

new ideas
author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Mon, 26 May 2014 01:40:11 -0400
parents 6ac0a38cf131
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     1.4  getting credit.
     1.5  #+end_quote
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     1.7 +- stage magic rituals :: rituals should incorporate elements of stage
     1.8 +     magic. Foe example in Teller's tempest, they have a scene where
     1.9 +     they levitate a crown in front of someone, then put it on his
    1.10 +     head. They also have a wedding ceremony where they levitated the
    1.11 +     bride as well. Actual weddings and other ceremonies should
    1.12 +     incorporate stage magic as an enhancement. 
    1.13 +
    1.14 +- isotope time dilation :: use a cyclotron to speed up rare isotopes
    1.15 +     developed in nuclear fusion experiments. The relativistic time
    1.16 +     dilation will stop the isotopes from decaying, and allow time to
    1.17 +     study them. This is based on radioactive isotopes that fall
    1.18 +     through the earth's atmosphere that take hundreds of times
    1.19 +     longer to decay than normal.
    1.20 +
    1.21 +- marsupial stimulation :: You take a freshly pouched marsupial baby,
    1.22 +     and show it videos and other interactive things while it matures
    1.23 +     in the pouch. What mental effects would this have?
    1.24 +
    1.25 +- dynamic re-keying :: Some older ways of tuning insturments sound
    1.26 +     better, but we use the even-tempered scale today because it makes
    1.27 +     it easier to switch keys. With electronic music, why not make
    1.28 +     key-annotations and dynamically re-tune the piece to sound good
    1.29 +     in the current key? Coule be done as a midi+annotation -> midi
    1.30 +     compiler for experimentation.
    1.31 +
    1.32 +- death always implies damage :: is is possible for a corpse to differ
    1.33 +     from a living person only in the fact that one is dead and the
    1.34 +     other is alive? NO! A corpse must always have some sort of
    1.35 +     molecular damage which causes the loss of function!
    1.36 +
    1.37 +- inner eye :: Surgically install a bunch of tiny cameras inside a
    1.38 +               person. Then, you can activate them all and get a
    1.39 +               picture of your internal organs for diagnostic
    1.40 +               purposes. 
    1.41 +
    1.42 +- chaos rails :: should make a visulazation of the homoclinic tangle,
    1.43 +                 it's truly beautiful.
    1.44 +
    1.45 +- context gobbler :: this would be in "inside-out macro" that takes
    1.46 +     the context (like you use for things like error, continuations,
    1.47 +     and friends) and transforms it to something else. Maybe useful?
    1.48 +
    1.49  - cryonics middle ages :: some people say that cryonics is an
    1.50       experiment and that it is foolish to wait until we have revived a
    1.51       human. There is a middle ground where the procedure has a dismal