Augmented reality of the kind Verner Vinge writes about in Rainbows End.
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#102Inclusionism in Wikipedia. Some kind of independent agency rates someone as a "Master" of physics, and only they can delete something on a physics page. I'd rather have a page of 99% nonsense with 1% truth than have no guarantee that anything I'm reading is correct.
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#103Problem: Status updates and notifications from my bank, facebook, meetup, server crashing etc.. aren't really e-amils but are being sent to to my inbox because there isn't a better place to send just the updates. Also, if I want to say, temporarily turn off status updates from facebook going to my inbox, this involves going into my facebook profile and turning notifications off there and then going back in there in t…
Check out notify.io and oovertheair.appspot.com. Would love to hear your feedback.
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#104Job search is very broken. Monster/Dice/Craigslist &c are broken. Not sexy, I know, but I imagine the people who solve that problem will become quite rich.
i had an idea of semi-fixing that, or rather rerouting around the problem by shifting the job-finding and -posting from the HR dept. to the individual employees.
Let's say you're a web programmer living in City A, and commuting to City B, a commute of 2 hours. Unbeknown to you, there's a web programmer in City B, commuting to City A every day. My idea would be to put these two in touch with each other, and eventually facilitate a job switch. You basically swap jobs (assuming you're both of equal proficiency, and the higher-ups agree to it), and don't have to commute any more. Yay/Nay?
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#105- negation of the UN Human Rights' council obsession with Israel - Cold Fusion - medical imaging that can detect emotional patterns and spiritual energy
I'm sorry, what?
- I can't think of any civil words here, so I'll restrict myself to the numbers 1440 and 13
- That would be great, but since everything we know about science makes it impossible (chemical binding energies orders of magnitude below nuclear binding energies), why even ask for it? Why not ask for workable hot fusion?
- We already have these technologies. Well, Paul Ekman did some really good work on facial analysis, as did John Gottman, and they claim to detect emotions from facial expressions. This could be done by machine vision. And a dowsing rod is an excellent for detecting spiritual energy, although you're right, a dowsing CAT scanner would be even better. What's that, the rod only works when a physic is holding it? Damm.
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#106A better way to communicate between cars -- honking a horn seems kind of stone age at this point.
I often wish I had a huge LED board on top of my car, so I could send messages to other drivers:
* "Your allowed to drive 120km/h here, your doing 95!"
* "The right lane is free you know!" (replace with left lane in rhd countries ;) )
etc...
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#107Online elections. Think of how many more people would actually vote in the US if it were online . The 2008 election had 63% voter turnout, which is historically high, but is nothing compared to countries like Italy with 90%. Obviously, there are huge security concerns and it would be a logistical nightmare, but that's what someone needs to solve.
If not proper elections at least a whole population simulation before the polls. That way people could express their true preferences without fearing that their vote will not count if it goes to a fringe candidate and would reassure them that they're not as few as regular polls and eventual results usually show.
Surely the issue is voting systems that do not rationally incorporate each voter's preference equally?
Unless you're suggesting iteration as a way to get around Arrow’s paradox? I'm not sure if anyone has tried it - could be interesting? But if not, then ranking candidates get you the same results.
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#108How about improving medical forms. I recently signed up with a new doctor and literally filled out 5 pages, which all asked for the same information. Name, address, social sec. #, insurance, signature etc... I felt like I was back in 1980. SO frustrating!
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#109The problem of induction. No one has answered Hume, except Kant and he dodged the question. This is the big question, underlying integration of QM/GR, the nature of time, P=NP?, AI, a stable credit-money system, scientific ethics, chicken or egg?, etc, etc. Once this is resolved, I feel sorry for future generation (not really) because its "only" applications forever after.
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#110University Research 2.0. It seems like universities are so lateeee on adopting new technologies. Most of them are still working with printed scientific journals / email / static HTMLs + GIFs from the 90s. They still do a lot of stuff through the mail and the count goes on... If you don't trust me, just take a look at http://arxiv.org/ or MIT's website. I'm pretty sure there's room for amelioration! If anyone wants to…
There's some progress, although research, and implementation/execution are two very different concepts. http://futurity.org/
Mendeley may not be exactly what you have in mind, but perhaps starting to take some steps in the direction of more collaboration / social approach to research (including a personalized recommendation engine):
http://www.mendeley.com/