MAG Database

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id title content link
1 Organic LCDs - -
2 Institutions with names that include the word World are doomed Also 'virtual'. -
3 Monster Virus Disease created by Corporations testing drugs/biotech in unregulated 3rd world countries - -
4 Direct freedom most efficient way for diverse life to proliferate It is foolish to expect freedom enumbering ... some other mechanism to . Related to 'Game Theory'? -
5 Copyright Storm Troopers - -
6 Flying Car - -
7 Its the weather, stupid What makes certain parts of the planet attract business and talent -
8 Storage Locker Farm Dilemma Plague of the Biosphere or prelude to the affordable housing of tomorrow?
Related: easyHotel, Yotel -
9 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. -
10 Planetary Core Waste Disposal Musing about how most toxic and difficult to recycle materials might be broken down by the Earth's hot magma -
11 Coffee 21st Century Style - -
12 Integrating biosphere use for urban, park, and wildlife ecosystems spaces sketches and notes -
13 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. -
14 impulse generator - -
15 Oceanic Death Phase Efforts to sequestor carbon/co2 to reduce green house emmisions disrupt world wide ocean chemistry. The disruption causes a complete colapse of microbial oxygen production - causing almost instantaneous death to all ocean animals. -
16 World Trade Center II something to highlite that those on the top floors died most tragically because their escape routes were all on fire below them. A structure with multiple risers but a single top -
17 collison avoidence via automobile sword rattling why placing obvious and dangerous implements at front and rear of vehicles may be better that embeeding, invisible, and expensive high tech collision restrainat and structural reinforcement. If most accidents are due to human factors/inattention there is no more powerful, inexpensive, and pletiful active collision avoidences system than the visually threatened human mind. -
18 electricty is so 20th century 21st century needs a new catalyst that clearly seperates it from the past -
19 uncompressed audiotechnology bites back How the efforts to obsolete vinyl LP's with a 'gee whiz' digital technology may have been a bad decision. Perfect 16 bit uncompressed audio CD's are only appreciated by audiophiles, while MP3's have broad consumer appeal without compromising pristine recording to meida priates. You want a CD for a new artists, well its an MP3 cd for $5 . You want the same songs in Red Book format, that will be $50 if its even offered anymore since in all likelihood Red Book will go the way of the 88 record - and not becuase a better sounding format came along - but because a less copiable. Its not that MP3 is not copiable - it is - but if Red Book CD's are limited to only audiophile status - then people will pay more to attend venues that use uncompressed 16 bit sound of there favorite works instead of just downloading it from the Interent. That is essentially one reason to go to see films in a theatre - the sound is better and the venue is tuned for presentation. These things can not be pressed on to a CD for distribution. The DVD you get has compressed video stream and compressed sound. The theatre offers viewing of uncompressed video and uncompressed sound. Never again will a work be released in uncompressed form for mass distribution. Look at DAT for a good reason why. Elsewhere ... - http://www.sacd.philips.com/sacd_format_3.html -
20 Superior Obsolescence - http://astral.zaptech.com/obsolescence.php
21 Clock Stopper innate ability of a person to stop their heart, a nearby clock, or other close proximity periodic process for a brief moment -
22 Broadcast Encryption Fallacy Natural Law makes it inevitable that encrypted broadcast keys are compromised quickly. Only a broadcast that that targets a single trusted person will not be subject to this eventual key leak - as is the case with ssh and the public provate key exchage secuity model. The only way to insure unauthorized people don't obtain a leaked key to a encrypted boardcast is to impose a police state on the broadcast recipients with severe penalties for sharing key information. http://astral.zaptech.com/broadcrypt.php
23 The End of the Bandwidth Rush Its not the amount of bandwidth that benefits society, rather it is a connection to the Internet where there was none before. Dramatically increasing an existing connections bandwidth does not commensuraetly increase that connections benefit to society. The only possible exception to this might be where increasing bandwidth makes a connection less unreliable and inconvenient (i.e. dialup -> DSL/cable). Upstream bandwidth = BIG value. Downstream bandwidth = little value. So because society sees little benefit in signicant bandwidth upgrades to the Internet all business that made money during the early expansionj of the Interent (when first connections points were a steady source fo grwoth) are now old businesses. For the most part, the current Internet backbone is as fast and as sophisticated as it needs to be - any business banking on unmet needs to growth the Internet will fail. The Bandwidth Rush is over. Like the Gold Rush of the mid 19th century, the Bandwidth Rush of the late 20th century has transformed the landscape of society as we know it, but has also made bandwidth an old world technology that no longer benefits from growth. That bandwdith to the Internet can now more or less be taken for granted has created afertile field for the next big information social transformation. However, what it is, how it will happen, and who will benefit the most from it is only a guess. A correlary to this is, The End of the T1 Era http://astral.zaptech.com/bwrush.php
24 Law of Higher Order Living Being cognizant of widespread life elevates human beings, and other higher life forms, from simply existing for their own sake. It also obligates them to act in the interest of the greater whole for their own well being. With the global communications and the Internet, this widespread awareness of life has never been so keen. In many ways MBA's, consumer markets, affordable energy, and a global job market are in part the direct manifestations of the 'laws of higher order life'. Radical fundemental religions and terrorist organization are simply pockets of life forms who for some reason deny the existence of widespread life, or seek to block the natural tendancy of higher order life forms to act to help one another.
For smaller, pocket sized populations, especially in acncietn history, this higher order life synergy probably did not contribute significantly greater well being. Studying civilization just prior to the the Egyptian empire, the Roman empire may find a correlation to more brutal living conditions when higher order life forms were not cognizant of the existence of others like themselves in particular large numbers.
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25 Blackout Crackers An elite organized crime unit has developed some equipment that identifies cell phone towers, local phone and cable trunks, and means for rapidly crashing/destroying them. They also deploy small devices capable of jamming GPS, and other satallite communications, often by prismaiztic aireal bomb, or other mechanism. Essential this elite unit can make a small city drop off the the planet from a communications point of view - as though the place was temporarily shifted to another universe where the benefit of higher order living brought upon by knowledge of others nearby is nullified. -
26 Geography determines best government Harsh inhospitaable geographies may not be best governed by 'enlightened' democracies. In some ways, harch environments are like permenant forntiers, which as a consequence are best run using 'frontier law' in association to some more enlightened government elsewhere. This allows a foreign stablizing force to allow escalation of injustices with a rule of law, without burdening the frontier state with impractical implementation of a justice system with virtually no resources. This also means that resources are covented more in harsh environments. In more forgiving environments, capitalism allows efficient resource sharing. Harsh environments oscilate between periods of abundance and very difficult times. Dictorial control of resource in some cases may insure their availability more in bad time than capitalism would. This also means marriage monogamy rules may impose undue poverty on poor women during harsh times (parhaps this is another pancake?) related 'Its the weather, stupid' -
27 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 with similar climates have similar neighbor relations. -
28 Nap Mode For audio and video products (namely radio and televisions) there should be 15 second nap button. So when the phone rings, don't just mute, nap. In a few seconds it will un-nap and allow programming to continue. That way you don't forget that the program is on. Handy for napping during a commercial or pledge break (allow variable nap time the same way sleep mode do). -
29 Activism with A Pension Activism can rarely be called a career, unless some provision could be made for long term rewards for activism. Does GreenPeace provide a pension to its employees? How about a pension for those who volunteer? -
30 The End of the T1 Era At 1.5 Mbps, a T1 Internet service agreement no longer provides one stop solution it once did to satisify most small business Internet needs. For all but very niche applications, most people and companies need good download capacity at home and the office, good upload capabilty at their ISP's colocation facility and nothing more. Consumer broadband with download speeds in excess fo 6 Mpbs is becoming common and affordable. Placing servers at a colocation faclity provides affordable high bandwidth upload capability. The need for a T1 line to server as a compelling upload and download solution is wanying. Upload badnwidth will be the predominate factor in cost. Download speeds at high multiples of upload speed for little if any additional cost will be the norm. Only backhaul carries will still pay for bandwidth total throughput since their value is moving data around, not moving it up or down. At 3 Mbps for high quality video (cable quality), the next big milestone for standard bandwidth will probably be around 20 Mbps download. This allows 3 channels to be watched with 100% headroom - more than sufficient for most households/customers. When this happens Internet TV will arise, rendering broadcast, cable, satalitle (television and radio) obsolete. With Internet TV, instead of 500 channels, you can watch 5 million channels, and you are not limited to your cable companies channel portfolios - indeed you can watch any channel on the planet - local or remote. -
31 The Cottage Society - commerce in a energy starved world When energy costs become prohibitive, automobile transportation will no longer be afforable to the middle class. Trains and nighbothoods will re-emage as predominant means for communities to grow and thrive. However, air travel is here to stay and will not abate significantly even with sharply increased fuel prices.

Offshoring will abate for all tasks except knowledge works.

The virtual elmination of plastics in products and packaging due to prohibive cost of oil will further spur a cottage societies that resuse and repair instead of throw away and buy new culture. Expect virtuous china textile manufacturing to become a boon industry.

[ circa 1859 ]
Here my chief discovery has been a cottage improvement society, so successful as to pay yearly dividends of 6 per cent. The working man is my doctor—Dr. Greenhill—who is secretary. Most of these societies have been quite failures as regards finance. The principles here are (1) Repairing, not building; (2) Rigorous collection of rents. There is a benevolent society attached to the cottage society, but it acts quite separately. Rent is rent, and charity, charity -

id	title	content	link
1	Organic LCDs	-	-
2	Institutions with names that include the word World are doomed	Also 'virtual'.	-
3	Monster Virus Disease created by Corporations testing drugs/biotech in unregulated 3rd world countries	-	-
4	Direct freedom most efficient way for diverse life to proliferate	It is foolish to expect freedom enumbering ... some other mechanism to . Related to 'Game Theory'?	-
5	Copyright Storm Troopers	-	-
6	Flying Car	-	-
7	Its the weather, stupid	What makes certain parts of the planet attract business and talent	-
8	Storage Locker Farm Dilemma	Plague of the Biosphere or prelude to the affordable housing of tomorrow? Related: easyHotel, Yotel	-
9	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.	-
10	Planetary Core Waste Disposal	Musing about how most toxic and difficult to recycle materials might be broken down by the Earth's hot magma	-
11	Coffee 21st Century Style	-	-
12	Integrating biosphere use for urban, park, and wildlife ecosystems spaces	sketches and notes	-
13	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.	-
14	impulse generator	-	-
15	Oceanic Death Phase	Efforts to sequestor carbon/co2 to reduce green house emmisions disrupt world wide ocean chemistry. The disruption causes a complete colapse of microbial oxygen production - causing almost instantaneous death to all ocean animals.	-
16	World Trade Center II	something to highlite that those on the top floors died most tragically because their escape routes were all on fire below them. A structure with multiple risers but a single top	-
17	collison avoidence via automobile sword rattling	why placing obvious and dangerous implements at front and rear of vehicles may be better that embeeding, invisible, and expensive high tech collision restrainat and structural reinforcement. If most accidents are due to human factors/inattention there is no more powerful, inexpensive, and pletiful active collision avoidences system than the visually threatened human mind.	-
18	electricty is so 20th century	21st century needs a new catalyst that clearly seperates it from the past	-
19	uncompressed audiotechnology bites back	How the efforts to obsolete vinyl LP's with a 'gee whiz' digital technology may have been a bad decision. Perfect 16 bit uncompressed audio CD's are only appreciated by audiophiles, while MP3's have broad consumer appeal without compromising pristine recording to meida priates. You want a CD for a new artists, well its an MP3 cd for $5 . You want the same songs in Red Book format, that will be $50 if its even offered anymore since in all likelihood Red Book will go the way of the 88 record - and not becuase a better sounding format came along - but because a less copiable. Its not that MP3 is not copiable - it is - but if Red Book CD's are limited to only audiophile status - then people will pay more to attend venues that use uncompressed 16 bit sound of there favorite works instead of just downloading it from the Interent. That is essentially one reason to go to see films in a theatre - the sound is better and the venue is tuned for presentation. These things can not be pressed on to a CD for distribution. The DVD you get has compressed video stream and compressed sound. The theatre offers viewing of uncompressed video and uncompressed sound. Never again will a work be released in uncompressed form for mass distribution. Look at DAT for a good reason why. Elsewhere ... - http://www.sacd.philips.com/sacd_format_3.html	-
20	Superior Obsolescence	-	http://astral.zaptech.com/obsolescence.php
21	Clock Stopper	innate ability of a person to stop their heart, a nearby clock, or other close proximity periodic process for a brief moment	-
22	Broadcast Encryption Fallacy	Natural Law makes it inevitable that encrypted broadcast keys are compromised quickly. Only a broadcast that that targets a single trusted person will not be subject to this eventual key leak - as is the case with ssh and the public provate key exchage secuity model. The only way to insure unauthorized people don't obtain a leaked key to a encrypted boardcast is to impose a police state on the broadcast recipients with severe penalties for sharing key information.	http://astral.zaptech.com/broadcrypt.php
23	The End of the Bandwidth Rush	Its not the amount of bandwidth that benefits society, rather it is a connection to the Internet where there was none before. Dramatically increasing an existing connections bandwidth does not commensuraetly increase that connections benefit to society. The only possible exception to this might be where increasing bandwidth makes a connection less unreliable and inconvenient (i.e. dialup -> DSL/cable). Upstream bandwidth = BIG value. Downstream bandwidth = little value. So because society sees little benefit in signicant bandwidth upgrades to the Internet all business that made money during the early expansionj of the Interent (when first connections points were a steady source fo grwoth) are now old businesses. For the most part, the current Internet backbone is as fast and as sophisticated as it needs to be - any business banking on unmet needs to growth the Internet will fail. The Bandwidth Rush is over. Like the Gold Rush of the mid 19th century, the Bandwidth Rush of the late 20th century has transformed the landscape of society as we know it, but has also made bandwidth an old world technology that no longer benefits from growth. That bandwdith to the Internet can now more or less be taken for granted has created afertile field for the next big information social transformation. However, what it is, how it will happen, and who will benefit the most from it is only a guess. A correlary to this is, The End of the T1 Era	http://astral.zaptech.com/bwrush.php
24	Law of Higher Order Living	Being cognizant of widespread life elevates human beings, and other higher life forms, from simply existing for their own sake. It also obligates them to act in the interest of the greater whole for their own well being. With the global communications and the Internet, this widespread awareness of life has never been so keen. In many ways MBA's, consumer markets, affordable energy, and a global job market are in part the direct manifestations of the 'laws of higher order life'. Radical fundemental religions and terrorist organization are simply pockets of life forms who for some reason deny the existence of widespread life, or seek to block the natural tendancy of higher order life forms to act to help one another. For smaller, pocket sized populations, especially in acncietn history, this higher order life synergy probably did not contribute significantly greater well being. Studying civilization just prior to the the Egyptian empire, the Roman empire may find a correlation to more brutal living conditions when higher order life forms were not cognizant of the existence of others like themselves in particular large numbers.	-
25	Blackout Crackers	An elite organized crime unit has developed some equipment that identifies cell phone towers, local phone and cable trunks, and means for rapidly crashing/destroying them. They also deploy small devices capable of jamming GPS, and other satallite communications, often by prismaiztic aireal bomb, or other mechanism. Essential this elite unit can make a small city drop off the the planet from a communications point of view - as though the place was temporarily shifted to another universe where the benefit of higher order living brought upon by knowledge of others nearby is nullified.	-
26	Geography determines best government	Harsh inhospitaable geographies may not be best governed by 'enlightened' democracies. In some ways, harch environments are like permenant forntiers, which as a consequence are best run using 'frontier law' in association to some more enlightened government elsewhere. This allows a foreign stablizing force to allow escalation of injustices with a rule of law, without burdening the frontier state with impractical implementation of a justice system with virtually no resources. This also means that resources are covented more in harsh environments. In more forgiving environments, capitalism allows efficient resource sharing. Harsh environments oscilate between periods of abundance and very difficult times. Dictorial control of resource in some cases may insure their availability more in bad time than capitalism would. This also means marriage monogamy rules may impose undue poverty on poor women during harsh times (parhaps this is another pancake?) related 'Its the weather, stupid'	-
27	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 with similar climates have similar neighbor relations.	-
28	Nap Mode	For audio and video products (namely radio and televisions) there should be 15 second nap button. So when the phone rings, don't just mute, nap. In a few seconds it will un-nap and allow programming to continue. That way you don't forget that the program is on. Handy for napping during a commercial or pledge break (allow variable nap time the same way sleep mode do).	-
29	Activism with A Pension	Activism can rarely be called a career, unless some provision could be made for long term rewards for activism. Does GreenPeace provide a pension to its employees? How about a pension for those who volunteer?	-
30	The End of the T1 Era	At 1.5 Mbps, a T1 Internet service agreement no longer provides one stop solution it once did to satisify most small business Internet needs. For all but very niche applications, most people and companies need good download capacity at home and the office, good upload capabilty at their ISP's colocation facility and nothing more. Consumer broadband with download speeds in excess fo 6 Mpbs is becoming common and affordable. Placing servers at a colocation faclity provides affordable high bandwidth upload capability. The need for a T1 line to server as a compelling upload and download solution is wanying. Upload badnwidth will be the predominate factor in cost. Download speeds at high multiples of upload speed for little if any additional cost will be the norm. Only backhaul carries will still pay for bandwidth total throughput since their value is moving data around, not moving it up or down. At 3 Mbps for high quality video (cable quality), the next big milestone for standard bandwidth will probably be around 20 Mbps download. This allows 3 channels to be watched with 100% headroom - more than sufficient for most households/customers. When this happens Internet TV will arise, rendering broadcast, cable, satalitle (television and radio) obsolete. With Internet TV, instead of 500 channels, you can watch 5 million channels, and you are not limited to your cable companies channel portfolios - indeed you can watch any channel on the planet - local or remote.	-
31	The Cottage Society - commerce in a energy starved world	When energy costs become prohibitive, automobile transportation will no longer be afforable to the middle class. Trains and nighbothoods will re-emage as predominant means for communities to grow and thrive. However, air travel is here to stay and will not abate significantly even with sharply increased fuel prices. Offshoring will abate for all tasks except knowledge works. The virtual elmination of plastics in products and packaging due to prohibive cost of oil will further spur a cottage societies that resuse and repair instead of throw away and buy new culture. Expect virtuous china textile manufacturing to become a boon industry. [ circa 1859 ] Here my chief discovery has been a cottage improvement society, so successful as to pay yearly dividends of 6 per cent. The working man is my doctor—Dr. Greenhill—who is secretary. Most of these societies have been quite failures as regards finance. The principles here are (1) Repairing, not building; (2) Rigorous collection of rents. There is a benevolent society attached to the cottage society, but it acts quite separately. Rent is rent, and charity, charity	-