Experiment HN: Idea day

Post by PostOnce » Fri, Nov 13, 2009, 6:46 AM UTC

petervandijck wrote: post #47

PostOnce wrote: post #40

How about a global effort to achieve post-scarcity? (The quicker the better.) Before I go on with the steps, let me remind you all how far we've come in the past fifty years: We have the internet. All electronically-reproducible data is now virtually post-scarcity. We are also on the cusp of everyone owning a high-performance personal-fabrication machine. Twenty years from now, You will be printing (or pirating) all…

Step 1 cannot be done. Step 2 is very, very hard. Step 3 cannot be done. Good luck :)

Post by jodrellblank » Sun, Nov 15, 2009, 3:29 AM UTC

kirubakaran wrote: post #62

jodrellblank wrote: post #58

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I'm not happy and optimistic and I see problems everywhere. What do you want - things that annoy me on a national scale? On an industry-wide scale? Personally? Things that could be solved with small amounts of software? Large software? Website? Problem 1: There's too much software. I can't learn it all. Why do I still have no better way to take a quick poll around the office than sending everyone an email and having…

"Musing: Visio is unpleasant to draw diagrams with but the results are good. Being able to sketch on paper and have the sketch turned into a visio diagram would be cool - rough circles turned into neat ones, rough lines into neat connections, this symbol into a server, that one into a building." In fact, I was working on this exact same idea for a while some time ago and shelved it when I found it to be difficult :)…