Seattle Think Tank Idea Night 2011/7/11
Idea Night July 7, 2011
The following is a quick writeup of the ideas that and topics from the Idea Night we did at Jigsaw Renaissance. http://www.jigsawrenaissance.org/2011/07/idea-sprint-report-2/Overview
- 11 Participants
- Jigsaw Renaissance Hosted
Exercise One: Spontaneous Theme + Pitch
Topic areas
- Hacker Space Passport
- Eye Tracking
- Motocycles
- Communcating in Communities
- Education
- Hacker Mentoring
- Training populations through Propoganda
- Vehicular voice activated shell
The discussion was focused on Education: Women : Re-education : Young Geniuses
Ideas:
- P2P repetition via 3rd Party technique voluntary and covert social network idea remindering
- Ideological hacker babysitting : Babysitters who are mentors to teach your kids technology and Transhumanism
- Effciency of buildings thru unisex bathrooms using tax credits / incentives
- Also helps with big lines at the “Womens” Room but empty men’s bathrooms
- Training program for babysitters that is taught by teens ( experienced babysitters) Learn about teaching (a bit). Solves the problem of uninteresting babysitters and empty time
- Re-educate Women: Why are 1/2 of the people in CS in Italy women but 5% in the US. Re-engage nannies in education to make tech interesting
- Tablet Education: Use tablets to replace textbooks, make access to info interactive, support a social media education wiki education tool.
- Ideollogical Babysitters Service: Gather/Market Young, Zealous babysitters which can be picked for adventurous/ Challenging exposure to their kid. (deliberately antagonistic)
- Faceted Diagrams/ Icons: Have a class contribute drawings to aggregateand classify perspectives to learn/explain a concept
- de-educate Man/Women Difference: In modern society the Male/Female Divide is way to emphasized. 1) have unisex Bathrooms 2) have sports that work as co-ed 3) marriage - 2 people of any sex
- Make educational and tech ebooks, containing multple levels of details which reader can open/dive in or skip thru. Maybe combine it with interactive books where the story and chapters are arranging and developing dynamically based on a persons choices. Just like a computer game. Solve a problem of immersion for person’s idea.
- “Peer-to-peer” repetition.
- Combine Peer2Peer notifications with Pimsleur method of progressive time intervals for repititions. Basically an online class where bits of knowledge are being passed to you from / via your facebook , so you remember and learn it better. App managers bit and friends, timing and testing/feedback loop.
- Create a game/framework for kids to mind-map/explain/ fantasize about concepts they learn at school, so it becomes like a kid-wikipedia or peer-to-peer alternative class. This will solve the problem of finding the right words to explain topics in a clear and understandable way, using language of kids.
- Paired programing in the classroom: Always know who you are training or being trained by.
- Ask me about X: A facebook app that gets friends to keep bringing up a subject.
- Punishment through reminders. If you do something wrong, everyone keeps reminding you of your failure.
Exercise Two: Idea Hand-off
- Credit card that limits spending habits throughout the day
- Task Parser: Put all your tasks in a hopper, it gives you one to do every day
- Opulent Toilets.com : Trucks with nice self-cleaning toilets. Caters to travelers downtown needs.
- Eye-tracking Swype: Technology to let you look at your phone to make a text message
- Peer to Peer Taxi: Find people -w- common start and stop. Group these together
- Emergency key: Firemen/police/medical personnel have super electronic key which opens doors of hotels, houses, cars in an emergency.
- Hacker space trust: Trust network for all spaces but for personal spaces.