Ideas: November 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:
Reddit for scientific research
There should be a Reddit for scientific research with the ability to vote up or down papers, subcommunities, and karma. This replaces the selection/prestige process traditional journals have over the scientific community. It’s similar to how Github became the go to site for software and software engineers, because of the metrics they provided like how many stars and forks a library has or how often a developer has been committing code and what libraries belong to them. Could include something similar to Github issues where people share what they’re working on so that the collaboration process is more transparent.
Threaded live chats
Threaded live chat feature would make a huge difference in the quality of a chatroom, it turns stream of shouting matches into actual conversations. There should be notifications if someone responds back to a threaded chat and the original message poster automatically becomes the thread moderator.
Centrifugal gravity space station
A good next step for an international space station is a space station with centrifugal gravity and see how it affects biology. Would be a good use for SpaceX’s next generation heavy payload Starship.
Apple Watch Touch ID
A new feature that could boost the security of the Apple watch is a button fingerprint sensor like they have on the iPad. It could make some features more secure like Apple Pay but also could turn the Apple watch into a tool to unlock other things like your car.
Micro-dosed Time Off
What if you could take time off in micro-doses so that you can manage a side-business while you’re at work. You’d just go to the time keeping app, start taking time off, and take/make a necessary call, then stop the timer. You’d never spend more time on your business than if you had time off which is a plus for your job and you’d be able to hustle which is a plus for you. Time off could be spent retroactively up to some limit like the day.
Mobile experience
For whatever reason on iOS, it’s not possible to lock the Contacts app on iOS behind biometric authentication while it is possible to lock the Phone app. Locking the contacts app would prevent a thief from threatening to delete contacts in exchange for a ransom. And no you can’t just delete the Contacts app and lock the App store app, you can download the Contacts app straight from Apple search.
To request screen share on iOS, you shouldn’t have to tap “Share my screen” to show the “request screen share” button because it’s confusing. There should just be two buttons one to share my screen and one to request share screen.
Should be able to scan on screen QR codes by using the OS assistant. Basically invoke the OS assistant with the QR code on screen and it automatically allows you to tap on it to open the link.
car experience
The max acceleration for reversing a car should be severely capped. There’s almost never a point in normal driving where you need to reverse quickly.
Cars should have a low speed mode for tight maneuvers that you can toggle with a hotkey on the steering wheel.
Tesla’s should have a way of manually enabling top down view when driving forward.
Dial phone to enable lost mode
Dial your phone number and then enter a code to enable lost mode on your phone. So if someone steals your phone, you can just borrow a neighbor’s phone to lock your phone before the thief can do any damage.
Programmable cell
Connect cell to RNA printer to have a completely programmable cell. Then could use sensors like microscopes or single cell sequencing to see what the RNA is doing to the cell.
Security wearable
Wearable camera that’s connected to human security or someday an AI security system that would deploy police as soon as it detects trouble. Definitely gives up privacy but offers tangible security.
Keyboard for the mute
Basically slide in or flip out wrist keyboards for people who are mute, so they can type what they want to say and then display it with a screen on their head or chest. Could use a stenographer for extremely rapid speech.