Ideas: July 2025 Release
THE MOTIVATION
The ideas section is a place to offload and share various ideas I’ve come up. Although these are only the ideas that have already been implemented, tested, something I’m not interested in doing, or technically incomplete (meaning there’s various technical progress that needs to be accomplished before it’s applicable), however, it has definitely been conceived by me independently. Then there’s the secret ideas that I can’t quite reveal yet because I want to develop it first or because it maybe patentable and I want to protect my ability to patent it and open source it globally. Overall, these ideas serve to share the kind of practical imagination I have but also to share the journey into the future:
Sharing email legitimacy
There’s currently no way to definitively share a email is legitimate other than to share your email account access. Because forwarding an email allows you to edit the contents. My solution is to build in a feature to allow you to share access to an email like you’d share a document. If you need to share multiple emails, there’s just a feature to allow you to group access to the email together under one share link. Would be a huge boon to court system.
Genetically engineered babies
In the future, we will need to genetically engineer babies. By just treating illnesses after the fact, humans will slowly accumulate more and more genetic illnesses, since there’s no longer natural selection effect to weed them out.
Three body problem random number generator
You can use the chaotic nature where small initial differences can lead to radically different results to generate random numbers.
Hospital recording lapel pin
Given the huge amount of information hospital staff need to remember on a moment to moment basis, it would be useful to provide a way of recording it so that they can reference back to it later if need be. It could be a lapel pin with a microphone that’s connected to a smartphone to transcribe the conversations for easy searching and then play back the audio. Or could be a good use case for AR glasses. The data is deleted at the end of their shift for privacy.
Recommendation engine diet
Recommendation engine results should be balanced by popularity results for a balanced diet ie you’re not completely in your own bubble. Could be mixed together in same feed with a subheading/tag stating where it comes from.
MR glasses
MR glasses that are shaped like AR glasses like sunglasses or visor. You can’t see through the glasses, it’s handled via pass through. This way you get the perfect backdrop to display holograms with with a format that’s more socially acceptable.
TV as a monitor
I’ve been doing this for probably over a decade but it’s something that has been slow to catch on. But basically use a large TV like a 4k 55” as a computer monitor, it’s the equivalent of six smaller monitors in a seamless piece of display real estate. And even when sitting close to it, there’s hardly any pixelation.
High school MOOC class
High schools should offer a self-study course where they take a massively open online course (MOOC). This enables schools even in remote or poor areas to provide a vastly larger curriculum than they would otherwise been able to do on their own. All self-study students would take courses in the same class so that they’re all doing the same thing taking a MOOC while taking potentially different courses. Schools can partner with universities. It can be done in the prescence of a teacher to help facilitate and monitor progress (not necessarily needing to teach though), which dramatically increases course completion rates. If it’s a graded course, the teacher could proctor tests as well leading to college course credit. And they could also take a course to receive a certificate as well. Either way this introduces students early on to the college education system. And teachers can break out of the monotony of teaching the same class over and over. Luckily this good idea is so good, it’s already being implemented.
2nd chances for ex-cons
Ex-cons should get a second chance at life after they’ve served their time. Because the alternative where no matter what the crime, they’re unemployed on welfare or return to a life of crime for the rest of their lives is a huge minus for society. Although I would say the role should be appropriate given their prior crime. It’d be one of the biggest wins for our economy/society because incarceration is hugely expensive rather than actually contributing to society. About 5% of US citizens have been incarcerated at one point in their life, that’s a huge portion.
Pumped hydro sea wall
If coastal cities need a sea wall to protect them from rising sea levels, they can get an extra benefit by turning it into a pumped hydro energy storage solution as well. Basically when there’s surplus electricity from say renewables, they pump out the water from the interior of the sea wall. And then there’s a demand for electricity, the seawater is let back in through turbines to generate electricity. The amount of energy stored might not be a lot depending on the geography, but it’s an interesting idea that could be applicable for some areas.
Caller ID metrics
What if caller ID included metrics like what volume of calls/texts this number (with this owner) has made or what percentage of calls/text sent are flagged as spam (with this owner). This way someone nefarious with a caller ID say “Police” or “IRS” would have only thousands of calls with most of them reported as spam, so that you can automatically know not to pick up.
Car train
People could get inside a car or mini/smart car that automatically follows the “train” operator car in front. This wouldn’t involve mechanical linkages but digital ones like ARUCO codes along with networked communication. It’d function like a bus with the comforts of your own car while also increasing efficiency throughput since cars can accelerate/decelerate together in unison.
Classroom lecture shift
Classes would have students individually watch a lecture while a teacher monitors their progress. If a student keeps repeating a section they can go over to provide mentorship. If multiple students are struggling with the same section, the teacher can stop the class to go over it themselves.
Synthetically aged body double
Basically develop an organoid or lab-on-chip body double that is synthetically aged, so that you can see ahead of time what diseases you might get and take preventative action ahead of time.
Universal basic income Dilemma
Universal basic income provides the freedom of choice to where an individuals welfare money is spent. Something like EV credits, medicaid forces people to spend their welfare money in a particular way. I think this helps guides the discussion in terms of whether or not this kind of program should be implemented. A counterpoint to universal basic income is that government services have the advantage of providing services at economies of scale.
Service for monitoring pollutants
Basically a service where you can send a sample of something whether it be water, air, soil, supplements, etc and get back an analysis of what’s in it. It could be a government run service in that it provides a public good to monitor for pollutants. Results could be crowd-sourced to prevent unnecessarily repeating the same analysis over again. Because right now, I don’t think the average citizen would know where to look or at least it’s so hard to figure out most skip it. The government might not need to the provide the service themselves either, but could provide either a list of providers along with information on the different analyses or handle some of the overhead in terms of what analysis to run and who to run it with.
Government efficiency data
All government procedures and policies should be made public on a single website, and people can search and examine them and suggest improvements like a bug bounty. Or companies can search through them and offer their services on contract to improve them.