Category Archives for Thinking
Shlok Vaidya’s thinking.
Abstracting the Voting Layer
Our elite class – before it became a function of wealth – was designed to abstract the votes of the masses into a manageable form. A lot of people have been thinking about how best to adapt that structure. Here’s … Continue reading
Fortifying Airplot
Opponents to a Heathrow airport expansion, including Greenpeace, are looking for ways to solidify their control over the parcel of land. They’re crowdsourcing the fortifications. The structure will need to house activists for long periods of time and act as … Continue reading
PCB Fabrication + Fritzing
When I was in Germany last summer, I arranged a tour of a small engineering firm that built high performance PCB’s for Porsche’s racing class vehicles. It was a great experience. This small team designed, built, and shipped these complex … Continue reading
Post Carbon Institute
If you haven’t already, check out the entirely new and revamped Post Carbon Institute. They’ve done a lot of great work to get the right “feel” for their stuff. (Huge improvement.) In a lot of ways, it’s the collapse school … Continue reading
Idea: Utilizing Sense/Stage to Control Crowds
Utilizing it on an individual results in really tightly controlled activity (like the example below, where the music adapts to the dancer rather than the other way around). I’ve been thinking about utilizing the system with crowds. Why? You can … Continue reading