Mercurial > thoughts
changeset 153:6e0cc778102e
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author | Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu> |
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date | Wed, 29 Jul 2015 20:26:26 -0700 |
parents | 111bd9aa499a |
children | 4fe52d2a28e5 |
files | org/ideas.org |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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1.1 --- a/org/ideas.org Tue Jun 02 20:01:35 2015 -0700 1.2 +++ b/org/ideas.org Wed Jul 29 20:26:26 2015 -0700 1.3 @@ -19,6 +19,87 @@ 1.4 getting credit. 1.5 #+end_quote 1.6 1.7 +- spinal relay :: you have a small air-gapped repeater built into your 1.8 + spine in order to help with spinal injury, connect with 1.9 + prosthetics, and to monitor/control your body. Also, you could 1.10 + add the ability to save "macros"! 1.11 + 1.12 +- human cysts :: there should be communities of people with varying 1.13 + enforced separations from the rest of society in order to gaurd 1.14 + against various catastrophies. 1.15 + 1.16 +- bioelectric synthesis :: have a device which stores a lot of energy, 1.17 + and processes blood by creating sugar from waste produces over 1.18 + the day. You still need water, vitamins, minerals, etc, but this 1.19 + can handle the bulk of your energy demands and be recharged from 1.20 + the wall. 1.21 + 1.22 +- chelation as a method to improve cryoprotectant permeability :: 1.23 + 1.24 +- transgender fruit analogy :: like tomatoes 1.25 + 1.26 +- video game controllers as actual controllers :: console controlers 1.27 + like the n64 trident are excellent, durable tools for fine 1.28 + control. We should use them to control all sorts of things like 1.29 + robots by default. You should use it for your projects, since 1.30 + it's unlikely you'll be able to come up with something 1.31 + better. Compared to console controllers, the ones we use for 1.32 + robots/RC stuff are hopelessly clunky. 1.33 + 1.34 +- bubble computers :: bubble duality, bubble computing 1.35 + 1.36 +- dark blood bag :: blood bags in hospitals should be dark colored to 1.37 + protect the blood from damage from light. 1.38 + 1.39 +- chimeric homozygous sex chromosomes :: chimeric organism with XX and 1.40 + XX patterns from two males and two females. On average, it has 1.41 + the correct methylation pattern. Would it work? 1.42 + 1.43 +- horseshoe blood fixative :: would it work as a washout? 1.44 + 1.45 +- fixed protein packets :: group of fixed proteins in a network which 1.46 + is used as medicine. Hemoglovin, maybe? 1.47 + 1.48 +- prove hauntings :: website where you enter your pgp signed encrypted 1.49 + file and swear by all the gods that you'll haunt me with the 1.50 + password when you die, along with whatever other messages you 1.51 + have. protocol -- I video, throw rock, get password. 1.52 + 1.53 +- earth air water :: species name their planet "dirt" in their 1.54 + language, unless the're aquatic or flying, then they'd name it 1.55 + "water" and "air" respectively. 1.56 + 1.57 +- ethylene glycol alt name :: icebane 1.58 + 1.59 +- overflow hiaku :: a hiku about buffer overflos, with garbage C code 1.60 + inside. 1.61 + 1.62 +- white knight :: his sword is named "Privledge" (an inherited family 1.63 + sword) he rides along the land, defending the code of 1.64 + chivralirary and keeping the orthodozy of society from fading 1.65 + from the realm. 1.66 + 1.67 +- technological deflation :: even the richest robber baron from the 1.68 + 1920's could not afford a cardiac bypass surgery, even with 1.69 + literally all the money they had. As technology advances, the 1.70 + price of bread may go up, but the capabilities which money gives 1.71 + you also dramatically increase. 1.72 + 1.73 +- cure for color blindness :: could it be possible to administer some 1.74 + retroviruses via direct injection to the retina, to cause some of 1.75 + the cells in the retina to begin expressing different color 1.76 + pigments? The brain ought to easily sort out the rest and enable 1.77 + color vision. Furthremore, could we add some more colors to 1.78 + baesline human eyes? 1.79 + 1.80 +- mental integrity test :: if your brain starts to decay, you might 1.81 + not notice the damage until it's too late. This would be a mental 1.82 + integrity test that you take every few weeks that measures your 1.83 + performance and compares it to a baseline. The tests are all 1.84 + designed to catch the early signs of degenerative brain 1.85 + diseases. For example, you might use performamce on a 1.86 + smell-memory assoaction test to detect early-onset Alzheimer's. 1.87 + 1.88 - mind bank :: (in contrast to "brain bank") 1.89 1.90 - Passion of the Christ missed opportunity :: in the Passion of the