Destroy All Androids!

What we all need: an open system. That says it all. Humanity needs to have an open system of communication that will allow all the people to communicate with each other. I think of it like the post office. Anyone could put a letter in any mail box and the letter would go to any destination (even extremely rural ones). People who are making a lot of money from controlling the market will always talk about the virtues of the free market, proprietary technology, patents, etc. At the end of the day, it's about making sure that any person can connect with any other person as cheaply and as efficiently as possible. We should remind ourselves always that the rules we have in place are not there to make people rich and powerful, they are there to spur growth and development. And the rules need to be consistenly reviewed and optimized with that goal in mind.

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Social networking has vast potential. I think everyone gets that. Everyone is trying to figure out the rules of the game. By making it open and, perhaps, peer-to-peer, we would eliminate that controlling element. The thing that Microsoft wants so bad.

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Utopian City

Living in Moscow, where it can take hours and hours to travel a very short distance by car, I've been wondering about alternatives. There has to be a better solution to urban mobility. The answer has to be something which leverages mass transit systems such as subways and buses by augmenting them with a more flexible, personal mobility solution. Here is an example of one idea from MIT: The City Car (http://cities.media.mit.edu/projects/citycar.html).