Build an institute to teach an appreciation of natural philosophy and Zen. (I need to think more about generalizing alternative development to spiritual connections.) Many people have lost (or lack) a connection to both approaches to reality.
Gene ---------------------------------------------- Eugene Chang IEEE Senior Life Member [email protected] m 781-799-0233 (in Honolulu) > On Oct 14, 2023, at 4:00 AM, Dave Taht via Nnagain > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you! 173 people left to weigh in! > > On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 3:49 AM Qian Li <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> I would like to fund in three areas. >> >> Quantum computer design. It is the next revolution in the computing world. >> Building programmable network routers that are sufficiently quick to handle >> network packets at line speeds. In the meantime, router functions can be >> updated as easily and economically as software updates. This will solve the >> problem of Internet ossification. The deployment of new Internet >> technologies such as IPv6 will thus become easy. >> Home robots design. This may include cleaning, cooking, and babysitting >> robots. They can free housewives from day to day housework. As a result, >> more women will be able to contribute to the advance of computer networks >> >> Qian >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Nnagain <[email protected]> on behalf of Dave Taht >> via Nnagain <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2023 11:15 AM >> To: rjmcmahon <[email protected]> >> Cc: Dave Taht <[email protected]>; Network Neutrality is back! Let´s make >> the technical aspects heard this time! <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [NNagain] if you had a billion dollars >> >> thx for your thoughts! I have a fear that the other 175 other people >> here that have not posted yet have all our emails are going directly >> into their spam bin, so I wanted with this post to encourage people to >> lean back, relax (smoke one if you got 'em! Put on some great record >> on the stereo too), and propose spending an arbitrary billion $ on >> something they think would be good for the computing and internet >> world. >> >> It is otherwise such an inoptimistic world nowadays. I was delighted >> to see the whole earth catalog back online: >> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37872774 >> >> On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 11:23 PM rjmcmahon <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> o) FiWi chips and FiWi concentrators >>> o) Train people in fields that give them long term careers, e.g. how to >>> construct & manage fiber & RF networks >>> o) Things to help with climate impacts, e.g. advertise the heck out of >>> heat pumps >>> o) Fund shelters and support systems for victims of domestic violence >>> o) Try to find a business model that pays journalists so we don't have >>> to rely on Jeff Bezos for our news >>> >>> I wouldn't: >>> o) Buy an island in Hawaii >>> o) Buy a house that's more than 2000 sq ft >>> o) Buy a boat >>> o) Have 11 kids with multiple women >>> o) Fund anti aging research >>> o) Try to build rockets to mars, unless the project hired minorities to >>> do so >>> >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_G0ct4 >>> >>> Bob >>>> in trying to initiate some out of the box thinking here... >>>> >>>> What would *you* do with a billion dollars? >>>> >>>> ... >>>> >>>> I wrote this in 2015. I would not change much: >>>> >>>> http://the-edge.taht.net/post/billion/ >> >> >> >> -- >> Oct 30: https://netdevconf.info/0x17/news/the-maestro-and-the-music-bof.html >> Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos >> _______________________________________________ >> Nnagain mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/nnagain > > > > -- > Oct 30: https://netdevconf.info/0x17/news/the-maestro-and-the-music-bof.html > <https://netdevconf.info/0x17/news/the-maestro-and-the-music-bof.html> > Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos > _______________________________________________ > Nnagain mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/nnagain > <https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/nnagain>
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