Ideas

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    (18,885)   Socialising making money:  Society has problems that have rewards, society should openly share ways of making money (+) [en]
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    (18,885)   Query everything:  I should be able to search my entire computer and all data connected to me from one search box (+) [en]
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    (18,885)   Object Models Search:  A search engine, that works by composing classes and uploading object models, and can make things, if it doesn't find ones that already exist. (+) [en]
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    (18,884)   Addresser App:  Generalized URL address and lookup field for desktops, that opens addresses with appropriate apps and installs them when needed. (+) [en]
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    (18,884)   Install-less software:  The web is an install-less platform, but it only works for HTML/Javascript (+) [en]
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    (18,883)   Standardised reusable produce container and socket:  Our model of shopping relies on N people individually going to a distribution point (shops) and collecting produce to take home and then manually place in a refrigerator or cupboard. What if houses had a standardised socket for produce. (+) [en]
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    (18,882)   Self hosted personal data:  My name, address, bank details, credit card number should be self hosted by me or by my data provider - I shouldn't have to give the data to every company that asks (+) [en]
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    (18,882)   Local first software:  Software should be designed to work locally first, without needing a server side component (+) [en]
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    (18,882)   World splitting:  Imagine there are two points of view - one way to avoid conflict is to put both points of view into practice and try them both to see which is better. (+) [en]
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    (18,881)   Operation Search Equations:  Thing ? = Other Thing (+) [en, cn]
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    (18,877)   Window walk optimisation:  You want to find a job that is near your home transport wise, near a supermarket, doctors that pays the most and has the cheapest house to buy or rent (+) [en]
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    (18,877)   Accounting systems integrated with banks:  Running accounts for a business or organisation is time consuming and is largely spent cross referencing information. This is a task for computers not humans (+) [en]
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    (18,876)   Layered problem language:  Imagine we could define behaviour or code about an attribute of a large system in isolation from other concerns and have them tied together automatically into a whole. (+) [en]
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    (18,875)   Additive GUIs:  Specify the attributes of the GUI and let the computer generate the GUI (+) [en]
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    (18,874)   A Transdisciplinary Lingua Franca:  Introduce a tiny set of exhaustive transdisciplinary concepts that most people are intimately familiar with, that can represent all processes that people go through to build their worlds, then use them to organize information, and get people understand the modern world. (+) [en]
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    (18,874)   Event sourcing and CRDTs as data storage:  I think event sourcing and CRDTs can be combined to provide an alternative to the blockchain for general purpose data storage (+) [en]
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    (18,873)   Graph manipulation to queries:  Typically with an information system there are two ways of writing systems - one is predominantly through mutating queries and the other is through manipulation of objects in memory such as references between objects. ORMs blur the lines a bit. What if we could silently transform one form to another (+) [en]
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    (18,872)   Database proxy:  One way to get decentralisation for free is to write a Postgres database server which is a simple text based protocol and distribute the resulting queries to peers P2P (+) [en]
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    (18,871)   Snappy Widgets:  Widgets that snap into apps. (+) [en]
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    (18,870)   Community managed software security model:  A community driven, open source, low coding, distributed software model is, imo, next step. However, it inherently lacks security in a traditional sense. Here's one way to address that issue (+) [en]
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    (18,870)   Chain of necessity or chain of distribution:  In a group effort there are people who contribute more than others - there are those who contribute time and those who contribute money. There are others who do one off help. We should reward all these people fairly. (+) [en]
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    (18,869)   Autonomous distribution and hosting:  I have a number of files that I would like to keep available such as backups and a wordpress blog that I want to keep hosted (+) [en]
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    (18,869)   Distributed history search:  Rather than indexing the entire internet, index everybody's browsing history to find content (+) [en]
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    (18,869)   Distributed join:  To join data together you need the data to be colocated - this idea is to colocate a subset of joined data on each node so that the data can be split up (+) [en]
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    (18,861)   Information Density based video speed selection:  Watch videos and change their speed (+) [en]
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    (18,861)   Ecosystem of communities:  A network of communities, each governed as a dao, mutually vested, regulated thru nft contracts, neighbor helping neighbor, building common economy as interlinked net of economies (+) [en]
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    (18,861)   Network of Functions:  Document the world's entities like we document the functions of code, and build their network. (+) [en]
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    (18,860)   Bubblechute:  Shoot an explosive ahead into water on the collision-course to disperse and soften the impact. (+) [en]
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    (18,858)   User Freedom through Source Ownership:  Property Left through Property Rights (+) [en]
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    (18,858)   Mental Models for Human Experience:  Understanding Human Values, Perceptions, and Behaviours (+) [en]
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    (18,854)   Travel computer terminals at all transport locations:  This should be an android based computer system that lets you search journeys like Google Maps when your phone is dead. You can also summon a taxi to the transport location or book hotels (+) [en]
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    (18,854)   All inclusive travel card:  Use a card to travel on all transport options - tickets are associated with your credit card (+) [en]
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    (18,853)   Bird friendly buildings:  Buildings should have eaves for birds to roost and bird baths from the rain (+) [en]
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    (18,853)   Autonomous computer systems:  Plug a hard drive or a server into a cluster and it is assimilated automatically (+) [en]
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    (18,851)   Loving Systems:  Philosophy of all life as an energetic pattern that weaves into fractal networks (+) [en]
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    (18,847)   Human superorganism:  Our blood vessels carry food, oxygen and nutrients to our cells which each then do their work. The cells of our body are selfless - how do we create communities that are selfless (+) [en]
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    (18,844)   Negative Cardinality:  A mathematical set property of having less than 0 elements (Just like antimatter in Physics.) (+) [en, cn, lt, xx]
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    (18,844)   Verified skill/accomplishment database:  CVs are terrible at proving what you've built or accomplished - employers don't even study them properly (+) [en]
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    (18,843)   Minimum rights as a worker:  What minimum rights should workers have (+) [en]
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    (18,842)   Human-Dolphin Childspeak Learning:  Surround a human child with dolphins chat over sound filter to match human hearing, and get the first human naturally learn dolphin. (+) [en]
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    (18,842)   Shift marketplace:  A labour scheduling marketplace where workers can put a classified of a date and time they can work and for how long and a price for the time. Employers can create bids that are matched (+) [en]
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    (18,841)   "UseMe" standard:  The "readme.txt" equivalent for machines. (+) [en]
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    (18,840)   Societal debt - social credits:  Let people borrow £500,000 from the community over 50 years, receiving £10,000 a year or £833 a month (+) [en]
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    (18,831)   Online Courses Subsidies:  Heavily subsidize MOOCs, and efficiently raise the value of a country's human capital, and reduce unemployment. (+) [en]
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    (18,826)   Water & Bacteria Perfume:  Ad Campaign "Symba" to Protect Water Sources (+) [en]
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    (18,826)   Instant job warehouse:  A warehouse with a coffee shop, supermarket, machinery owned by the people that you can work at without a job interview (+) [en]
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    (18,826)   Dark Conference:  An anti-thesis of TED: A Conferenece On "Ideas worth NOT spreading" (+) [en]
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    (18,826)   Labour, financial marketplaces are good:  Amazon is an example of a market place and it is good (+) [en]
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    (18,826)   Package manager (e.g. NPM) for shared libraries in browser:  Make browser user able to install libraries, like on operating system, and reduce the amount of data that we have to download for each app loading. (+) [en]
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    (18,822)   Remote Talk Cap:  Making a narrow angle modulated light emitter and receiver headband, connectable via bluetooth to the phone, would make it possible to communicate with people at line of sight, directly choosing with one's head (like a laser pointer), whom to talk to. (+) [en]
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    (18,817)   Water Drops Travel Through Bodies and Earth:  Concept for art promoting inter-dependence: Crowdsourced stories using Water Drops metaphor (+) [en]
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    (18,815)   Adversarial companies:  Adversarial companies are adversarial companies designed to topple international organisations funded by governments (+) [en]
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    (18,814)   Organs-Funded Cryonics:  Freeze heads or brains, and get organs pay for the costs of cryopreservation... (+) [en]
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    (18,813)   Templating Micro Communities:  A social behaviour to connect people into a micro community (+) [en]
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    (18,813)   Personalized union (+) [en]
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    (18,782)   AdLock:  In-Game Problems as Advertisement Locks (+) [en]
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    (18,782)   Media Titles Buzzword Spam Filter:  Just like an ad blocker, but filters out titles in news feeds, containing buzzwords. (+) [en]
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    (18,777)   Advice engine:  Feed in all your data, get personalised advice (+) [en]
  • 0
    (18,763)   Failure logging:  Start a company or project that fails, it should be logged somewhere (+) [en]
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    (18,759)   A login with protection from keyloggers:  A protection from simple keyloggers & easy-to-remember passwords, encode your input! (+) [en]
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    (18,751)   Automated dump and import:  We can run a query in each table to dump data that is newer than the last date we checked (+) [en]
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    (18,749)   Election by animals:  Dogs are often better judges of character than most people (+) [en]
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    (18,740)   Data structure layout automation:  Let the computer handle the data layout. Focus on the access (+) [en]
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    (18,737)   Scaling from zero:  It should be possible to run a minimum of infrastructure to scale from 0 (+) [en]
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    (18,724)   Community scheduling:  Schedule every human to a residential home that is near work (+) [en]
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    (18,723)   Appless OS:  Operating system without user-facing apps. Instead, exposes basic functionalities, high level programming language, API and data. (+) [en]
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    (18,721)   Basic Patterns Reverse Search Engines:  Objects, density maps, curves, surfaces, waveforms, feature hierarchies search by examples. (+) [en]
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    (18,721)   Intelectual Property Development Partnership Contract:  A type of contract and relationship that innovators could use to create mutually-beneficial relationships with companies. (+) [en]
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    (18,719)   Cryopresservation:  Cryopreserve at high pressure, and avoid fracturing of tissue (?) (+) [en]
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    (18,716)   Inter-ref:  A code that is subscript next to a word or phrase to link to a portal of that word (+) [en]
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    (18,711)   Probet:  A method to sell ideas. (+) [en]
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    (18,709)   Business Language:  Computers are good at executing instructions mechanically but not very good at interpreting business language. We need a serialization that captures what a business does to make money (+) [en]
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    (18,706)   Hankeyboard:  Double-sided hand-held touchtype keyboard for Mini-Notebook PC (+) [en]
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    (18,685)   Living Matryoshkas:  Balancing Lower-Level System for Cascading Effects in Higher Levels (+) [en]
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    (18,680)   Gradual Neurocircuit Replacement:  Replace different neural circuits incrementally, and get one's mind uploaded to the digital form without losing one's identity. (+) [en]
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    (18,671)   Energy Wallet:  Create inter-blockchain wallet with time-complexity exchange based on difficulty of blocks, and associated expected energy to mine, and extinguish all cryptos with a more fundamental unit of value: measured time-complexity itself. (+) [en]
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    (18,666)   Collect Death Causal Graphs to Prevent Death:  Collecting medical tracebacks from hospitals around the world and computing risk of deeper causes to recommend early diagnostics and lifestyle changes (+) [en, cn]
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    (18,658)   Deep Underwater Cities:  Build cities deep underwater for reducing likelihood of extinction from natural catastrophic events. (+) [en, cn, lt]
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    (18,652)   Infinity Land trust:  Own some land communally (+) [en]
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    (18,651)   StarChip:  Hyper-miniaturize spacecraft, and reach the stars. (+) [en, cn]
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    (18,646)   Business Incubator (+) [en]
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    (18,644)   Dolphin Internet:  Ultrasound internet, using StarLink to connect dolphins in different regions, to learn from each others. (+) [en, cn]
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    (18,644)   Regulation school:  Get trained in an area of regulation (+) [en]
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    (18,644)   Blog 2.0:  Blog that works on your turf (e.g., server), yet has all the social networking and social media conveniences and capabilities. (+) [en]
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    (18,644)   Social curriculum:  A educational curriculum on how to work together rather than compete (+) [en]
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    (18,644)   UE: United Entities:  Just like the UN, but inclusive of non-countries: corporations, individuals, etc. (+) [en]
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    (18,644)   Right Competition:  How to foster healthy competition (+) [en]
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    (18,644)   The maternal computer:  How to protect people with technology and right deployment of funds (+) [en]
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    (18,644)   Unity app:  On what points of human life do you have unity with? (+) [en]
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    (18,644)   Close down all family trusts and cap how much land you can own (+) [en]
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    (18,642)   6 hour childcare:  I think childcare can be collectivised. (+) [en]
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    (18,639)   Consumer price breakdown requirement (+) [en]
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    (18,639)   Deserving market fund:  Markets allocate funds to shareholders, can markets allocate equitably too? (+) [en]
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    (18,637)   Supercategories for Public Intelligence Standardization:  Create standard super-categories for classification of data sources, based on the equation ontology, and make data more actionable. (+) [en, cn, lt]
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    (18,637)   Synergy Bubbles Social Experiment:  Social experiment asking strangers deep questions (+) [en]
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    (18,635)   ClipText:  A text that visualizes itself. (+) [en]
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    (18,634)   World Mapping Assistant:  A computer program-toolkit that helps individuals build world model by scanning networks and P2P crawling internet, leveraging their personal computer's accessibility. (+) [en, cn]
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    (18,633)   Boredom expert:  Someone who studies your psyche to work out what you should be doing (+) [en]
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    (18,631)   Televised lectures:  On normal everyday televisions should be recorded lectures on random topics (+) [en]
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    (18,630)   Positronic Material Emulation Screen:  Shoot positrons to simulate the chemical properties of a surface through electric field patterning, and get electrons simulate materials without use of atoms. (+) [en, lt]