- 16 Jan 2013 10:16
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I'm not sure who else here ventures into the technology subforum, but there is a recent thread about some new renovations in indoor farming. For instance, the use of red and blue LEDs stuck out to me. What struck me about this was the thought of the WalMart business model; superior logistics combined w/ one-stop shopping for mass products. With the emergence of 3-D printing in recent years as well, the thought of printing products at a warehouse/distribution center has been bandied about as well. While certain products, such as teas (I assume) and most meats, still need to be produces traditionally, this means the logical extension of a supercenter is not only centralized consumption, but production as well.
Another dynamic I've had in my head for some time was car-printing. Car-shares already exist, but there are some prototypes which exist now that can't find the investment capital to scale up production to be competitive w/ existing companies. However, one model I remember looking at was a weird three-wheeled electric model that ran the equivolent of 100 mpg off a charged battery (which can be switched out, rather than recharged in vehicle) I remember reading about in '09.
One more that needs to be considered are hospitals. We're currently reaching the limit of our capabilities w/ antibiotics, that antibiotic-resistant diseases are growing in number and prevalence each day. This provides the need for work into phage therapy, which will naturally progress at a much faster rate than pharmacueticals currently do- the presence of patent-sharing would be absolutely necessary in our current economic model to make this idea workable.
Now, I know in the past Kolzene has mentioned problems w/ grabbing attention for Technocracy Inc and in working ideas, but I have to wonder if they've managed to take these ideas into consideration. I'm also a bit curious about how that organization works, itself. Since it's founding in the 1920's (iirc), we've created the public-benefit corporation (sic) that would allow Tech Inc to work within the current system to promote an abundance in name, without being held to the confines of profit-motive. We've also seen the establishment of the RAND corporation, which does a great amount of research, studies, and lobbying to support new or emerging technologies, or try to. I doubt it's out of the realm of possibility to work with them to refine any models and promote a more advanced system.
Sorry if this comes off more as a rant than a structured, piognant article, but I'm just having one of those moments when a bunch of thoughts collide.
Another dynamic I've had in my head for some time was car-printing. Car-shares already exist, but there are some prototypes which exist now that can't find the investment capital to scale up production to be competitive w/ existing companies. However, one model I remember looking at was a weird three-wheeled electric model that ran the equivolent of 100 mpg off a charged battery (which can be switched out, rather than recharged in vehicle) I remember reading about in '09.
One more that needs to be considered are hospitals. We're currently reaching the limit of our capabilities w/ antibiotics, that antibiotic-resistant diseases are growing in number and prevalence each day. This provides the need for work into phage therapy, which will naturally progress at a much faster rate than pharmacueticals currently do- the presence of patent-sharing would be absolutely necessary in our current economic model to make this idea workable.
Now, I know in the past Kolzene has mentioned problems w/ grabbing attention for Technocracy Inc and in working ideas, but I have to wonder if they've managed to take these ideas into consideration. I'm also a bit curious about how that organization works, itself. Since it's founding in the 1920's (iirc), we've created the public-benefit corporation (sic) that would allow Tech Inc to work within the current system to promote an abundance in name, without being held to the confines of profit-motive. We've also seen the establishment of the RAND corporation, which does a great amount of research, studies, and lobbying to support new or emerging technologies, or try to. I doubt it's out of the realm of possibility to work with them to refine any models and promote a more advanced system.
Sorry if this comes off more as a rant than a structured, piognant article, but I'm just having one of those moments when a bunch of thoughts collide.
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