chapotraphouse

Global grid of computers for collective use. Like a public cloud. The primary purpose of this would be for economic planning (and voting on priorities for the plan) but also for any other purpose (research, providing services, data storage and distribution, etc).

I'm too media obsessed for me to fantasize about things that aren't using the position to mandate certain pieces of media be made. Which is kinda dumb so dont put me in power.

A circular underground tunnel for bikes. Cyclists have little umbrellas that they open up when they enter the tube and everyone rides clockwise. There are mudflaps at the entrance and exits.

My thing would be to give people previously unhoused or disconnected to connect with one another to make villages just large enough to be self-sustaining. And they could do specific tasks or research that personally appeals to them with or without credentials/gatekeeping as far as education in our current systems.

I mean like communes I guess, but more goal focused - like a village of agriculture enthusiasts who want to grow and use local plants and resources to sustain themselves and track success. Or a village of people who want to repurpose old hangars to develop aviation technology or something physics related.

Honestly I just want to group together enthusiasts and see what they can make or discover when there's no worry about rent, no paywalls, and no profit incentives.

I think I'd like to live in a village somewhere isolated and low tech that focuses on spending large spans of time on personal projects and sharing them in a group setting like once a month. An introvert's paradise. I think there are cool things we can learn and create when given different safe environments. I know that people would really gravitate towards what motivates them when they have their needs met and given the opportunity to explore.

I'd also like the idea of education in general being freely available with certification only necessary in relation to human safety (medicine, nuclear physics, etc.).

boooooorrrrring

gladiator games are back for good

I would build a giant space station that's basically entirely solar panels with some kind of magnetic dust shield that would be permanently in sunlight, then it would beam electricity down to earth or something.

Try to make local and sustainable industrial productivity with solar metal casting and distributed network of CNC machines.

https://hackaday.com/2022/11/07/smelting-solar-style/

https://hackaday.com/2023/06/25/automate-away-the-drudgery-of-cnc-manufacturing/

~~backyard furnace~~ backyard solar smelter -

I'd take the best aspects of metric and amerikkkan measurement systems and invent DOZENAL METRIC. In fact, all math and counting will be done in base 12.

Build a railway through central America, terminating in Brazil, up through Canada to Alaska and then across to Russia.

Switch the internet from a server-client infrastructure to a p2p one with a small cache on every router using something like IPFS.

I guess mine would be the decolonization of language. Supporting native indigenous languages until they are brought back from the brink of extinction until they completely replace Anglo.

Night trains from everywhere to everywhere would be neat. Including neat sleeping cabins so that the population of the world can migrate by climate phases and joy.

But since I played openttd make it river canals and ships that are trolley boats.

El sistema everywhere

Every shitter gets a biogas generator and we stop extracting natural (petrochemical) gas but use the existing pipelines for renewable sewer gas power

Buy out the ozempic patent and deliver it to every obese person

Sponge Cities!

i would build everything that would give my granddaughter a better life

I'd try to make the education, society, and culture in such a way to try and make almost everybody gay or bisexual to see how much nurture affects sexuality

i would order all the garbage to be pilled up at the border ,... Garbage Hoxha Mountain Range..

Giant solar shield in orbit so that i dont have to see the sun

Convert all standard mathematics from base 10 to base 12

Duodecimal system baby, fuck this non divisible by 3 system.

We counting on our phalanges now.

Write into law that there is only one type of Christianity allowed. Every five years the knights of columbus and the freemasons select their top guys for a gladiator fight. If the Knights win then catholicism is the official religion for 5 years, if the masons win it's protestantism.

National program for graphic novels.

National program for more frogs

National program for the preservation of songbirds

I would pick the last one. Love those little guys so much. Hearing a cool bird keeps me alive sometimes.

Alantropa? The TNO brains are leaking.

someone else brought this idea up a couple weeks ago but its been stuck in my brain ever since:

1. seize all gold stores from the wealthy/governments of the world
2. bring the best and brightest computer system engineers and scientists together and develop a new standard of solar-powered computing that emphasizes durability, accessibility, and low power consumption above everything else.
3. melt down all the gold from 1 and use that stockpile to construct public computer services and interfacing devices that are handed out or otherwise available for everyone to use cheaply
4. slowly spin-up new solar-powered datacenters, decommission/cannibalize existing datacenters and sell off those resources to recoup the costs of the project.

thats the view from 10 billion feet up. i think it would be pretty neat.

The destruction of all white settlements in desert areas and summar execution of sundown towners

Virtual drug test dummies. I would commission huge banks of supercomputers to simulate the human body for rapid drug tests and general research, and dump money on quantum computing. Idk if this counts as a crank project but it would definitely be immense.