I would make a personal mind clock that runs on a phone that starts when the individual chooses and continues as their development in knowledge grows. It would be a gift that allows private time growth management.

Ecology - sound of life. Continue the research from Karen Bakker to better understand the sounds of life and how we can better nuture it and assist the preservation of farming, food and our lovely forests. Reducing wildfires and perhaps even better undestanding tectonic plate movements to predict severe earthquakes and volcanos, to give warning and country emergency planning.

Computer Science, investigate getting more out of less. Investigating the lower levels of compute to leverage a CPU. It was possible to render video and images of CPUs that had less than pentium II chips that ran at a clock frequency of 300Mhz, why is it today that we have 3/4/5GHZ clock frequency processors that run with 8 cores that do exactly the same. Why haven’t we investigated the lower bit based storage and processing of that data to leverage modern processors to get accelerated software that is discrete, producing perhaps the ability to stream multiple video renders from a Formula 1 race. Returning to the base principles of software over hardware, what could be done in the lowest layer of software, such as better pipelining work with the bits and bytes data structures, filesystems rather than the databases of today that extend areas of software that today no one really understands.

The same being applied to the bandwidth and networking, it was possible to download an mp3 from an IRC channel in late 90s and today we stream music on Spotify. What is it that we should investigate the TCP/IP stack to innovate new methods of data transfer and re-usability.

AI and the use of GPUs and the expensive task of using electricity, why couldn’t we return to the use of intelligent search indexes that even Google had with their early Google desktop search, that created an index that you could search locally, today in all Macbooks there are neural cores, why isn’t it possibile to better analyze and index data for intelligent questions and answers. This would be great for students to build their own research indexes that are private from scarce literature, it’s the curation of the content that makes intelligence rather than a LLM model that indexes billions of tokens.

Private AI search index #

Creating a local neural network to index a private AI engine to answer questions on content that is indexed from the web or data sources freely available. Such that every student have their own private AI engine. Collaborating with other academics or students with their indexes. Think of it as a ChatGPT for different faculties, students or even their families.

Building on early Search Index retrieval methods rather than full neural networks, and only leveraging neural networks for NLP and better understanding a question to extrapolate a search query or even pre-indexing of content in complex semantic structures that are able to contextually link topics together.

Creatives #

Lifting up the use of Lidar and sensors.

Creating a student social network for creatives to capture the world they love and sharing with those around them. Better than YouTube. Using the feature of Lidar and the ability to publish to the web.

Creatives around the world, can then capture Joy of the world they see and share it.

Faster sharing / Music/Video Publishing #

Introducing a faster sharing of offline created content that is smaller and higher efficiency for transporting on slower internet connections.

Being able to create locally encoded and ready to go content, the chips on mobile and desktop today are great. Just that we are today uploading large content to be transcoded on the server rather than the client. We need to shift back to local computer over server compute. Client to server.

A faster lighter weight network #

Being able to use old TV aerials and creating a new dongle that would allow anyone to connect their phone/computer to a Co-axial or aerial connection to use a new type of modem to take advantage of multi band FM signals for faster data transfers and longer distances without having to putting sattelites in the sky. Protecting the beautiful stars at night.

It would be great for oversea students in locations such as Africa and Mexico.