Just come up with an innovative product to make people’s now useless - but still perfectly good television sets - have some other life. Hook it all into the blah blah sustainable blah blah green whatever jargon and imagery that’s going around. I can’t remember where I heard about something similar, some guy with an old warehhouse full of old computers that people had paid him to take just so they could get the physically useless and difficult to dispose of objects of their hands. He was supposedly “recycling” these tvs, but really they just sat there. Even copying something as idiotic as this would probably turn a quick buck in a pinch. Fill up a warehouse full of old useless analog tvs. Make people pay you to come pick them up out of their house. Something cheap.
One more elaborate idea: An electronic device bridging your laptop to your analogue television (small scale transmitting), programmatically connecting things like search history and user-defined settings so you always have a queue of videos loaded up and at the ready any time you sit down at the television. I can’t imagine that Google isn’t sitting on this right now. Xbox is positioning itself in this direction, my friend is getting Netflix on his machine, and there’s a console/interface built right in. Something even simpler wins. Something so pointlessly ingenious, that everybody be like, oh dammit why didn’t I think of that. That’s the world we’re living in right now, the Blank Now.
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That’s a really good idea. I would buy that today.
I’d also like to have a machine that reduces the entire internet to the occasional ticker tape or fortune cookie format output.
I’ve been spending a lot of time at your research site lately. Do you ever sleep anymore? This seems like a really productive time for you, does it feel that way?
Yeah I’m knocking through barriers left and right and its been a challenge to keep it all together while essentially downloading the future. Leaves you in a very weird psychological state
The I Ching recommends hexagram 27: “You are a conduit in this instance, able to provide the sustenance needed by others.”