# HG changeset patch
# User Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
# Date 1388507389 18000
# Node ID 0653ed4b00a3ef2452fc807c447d0c72c51cb0b1
# Parent  1904bdd70254569486aa91f056b8803f1017fcc2
learning to teleport.

diff -r 1904bdd70254 -r 0653ed4b00a3 org/ideas.org
--- a/org/ideas.org	Mon Dec 30 00:02:37 2013 -0500
+++ b/org/ideas.org	Tue Dec 31 11:29:49 2013 -0500
@@ -31,6 +31,17 @@
 getting credit.
 #+end_quote
 
+- learning to teleport :: scifi idea, this is a story about a person
+     who is struggling with his/her society's ideas about
+     teleportation. It's considered a fundamental part of being a
+     member of that society (after all, the difference between animals
+     and humans is that humans are creatures of pure information while
+     animals are burdened with base matter, "that's how you travel the
+     stars, etc") Humans are born normally, grow up, and then
+     eventually transcend via destructive upload. Analogies to jumping
+     off a diving board into a pool (which I simply /could not do/ for
+     a long time), etc.     
+
 - bitcoins for immigrants :: A common case with Mexican immigrants
      (illegal or not) is that they want to send money they've earned
      in the US back to their families in Mexico. They currently do this
@@ -411,7 +422,7 @@
      by the sensor array).
 
 - intelligent microwave :: it learns where the hot nodes of its fields
-  are, and uses them to evenly heat any food item. It has an infared
+  are, and uses them to evenly heat any food item. It has an infrared
   camera or something to keep track of how hot the food is. That way,
   you don't get bowls where the edges are boiling, while the center is
   still frozen. Requires a little bit of intelligence/vision, since