Use google sets, Google image search, Google text to speech? Google translate etc. with an HTM hierarchy built as a google app. This would be the conciousness module, the seed for the singularity. Therefore all blog entries, emails, web pages etc, are elements in the subconscious of the embryonic Escaton.
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
Replace CNN/Fox News tickers with relevant user generated content.
Make an overlay for a TV viewer (e.g. for mythTV) that overwrites the annoying ticker bar in CNN (etc.) with alternative content. e.g. fact checking from politifact.com or putting stories in perspective: "although flooding in this small US town is tragic, there are currently 3000 major floods on earth affecting 160M people" etc.
Stories rotate so frequently that a small group of people could create and schedule the content. The service could even sell google adwords in the ticker.
Update: voice analysis for spotting lies would fit nicely in here too.
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Cute Mini Elephants
Body shape variation in dogs as a training set for Genotype / Phenotype transformation.
Sequence the genomes of all the true breeding varieties of dogs. The physical dimensions of the same set of dogs is also recorded. Now let some algorithm extract the correlations between shape and genome.
An ideal outcome will be an application where the input is an initial dog shape and associated genome and a desired dog shape. The output will be a new genome.
If these growth rules are conserved across species then the same application might be able to design a cute little short legged dog sized elephant.
Tuesday, 8 April 2008
Google Road Trip
EBay for transport.
- You plan a route on Google Maps and click the "Road Trip" button.
- You see a list of other people who are making the same journey, some have space in their car, and some want to join somebody who does.
- Companies can use the service to offer transport for defined journey legs, for a set price.
E.g. A taxi company can give a price from the city center to the airport; a flight charter company can give a price from Miami to Cuba; a guy who commutes every morning can sell seats in his car.
As the service matures more legs will be entered and eventually Google will be able to give you total journey prices comprising multi legs. Ebay style reputation feedback will keep folks reliable.
2011: I type London to Sydney in Google maps. The "Road Trip" options include:
- BA business class direct, 1000GBP.
- A 3 stop journey using Aeroflot and a buss leg between Ulan Bator and Yinchuan, 400GBP.
- An adventure by container ship to Cairo, passenger seat in a Rally car to Dubai, and a final leg on a jump seat in a FedEx plane, 200GBP
Update: this would fit well for a company offering something like this air-taxi idea.
Friday, 21 March 2008
Monday, 10 March 2008
Media Upgrade Liscences
I own the Lord of the Rings DVDs, so what will I do when they are released in HD?
It's the same story for my Prodigy CDs and should be the same for my copy of Photoshop CS, all just data on disks. But unlike the record labels the software industry grew up with one click, one to many piracy and has a business model that reflects that. Back in the Golden Age of albums and films, a paradigm changing technology shift would arrive perhaps once in a record label exec's carrier. Now they arrive weekly. So instead of hitting the litigation panic button with each new technology why not adopt software's 'full version' / 'upgrade' model.
Let me buy a DVD, with a little gold leaved, hologramed liscence agreement in the case. I now own the rights to consume that media, where and when I want. Let me download it from bittorent, burn it to Blueray or copy it from a friends iPod. Then sell me the upgrade to HD, then 3D, subjective immersion or whatever comes next... Make it worth my while to buy rather than renting or stealing. People buy software so where is the difference?
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