Category Archives: Breakthrough Ideas: Journal

Draft: Why Highspeed Rail is not for U.S.

California and other states have begun to invest in high-speed rail systems to reduce connection and increase transit efficiencies and it looks like the US could catch up to Europe, China and Ja......

Draft: How Technology Evolves

The fundamentals for how and why technologies are developed are not so clear to even those who have become expert at inventing.  New ways of looking at technology are in order. Ray Kurzwiel is v......

Draft: Energy Scarcity Vs. Technology Singularity

Two very powerful opinions are in play, excitement for the inevitable progress of technology yielding higher living standards vs. those who fear that our current economic prowess and technologic......

A new single person aircraft from NASA: The Puffin

The following are a few interesting images from a demonstration video created by Discovery News regarding a new aircraft designed for single person flight.  This new vehicle is unique among sing......

Complexity and Emergence

Properties of complex behavior resulting from emergence 1)  VERY simple behavior on a lower level results in complex behavior no the group level 2)  These behaviors are computationally irreducib......

A home at sea

Image via Wikipedia I have been watching the Seasteading Institute grow rapidly since it’s inception in 2008 as I had been fixated on the idea of developing assets in the open ocean......

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