21st century ism-s

sometimes i wonder if terrorism is an unexpected outcome of democracy. And Whether the pro-majority nature of democracy can solve all the problems of minority.

In a world thats increasingly globalised with labours and immigrants more and more mobile, we are bound to have pockets of minorities that feel isolated and under-represented in all countries.

Will be interesting to see how democracy can evolve to solve such an increasingly complex multi-cultural society.

make an ipod wish

how kewl will it be to see all recorded lectures of the great and the good available on a service like iTunes.

Seems to me as a less controversial (than the Google books) and more usefull project to try.

UPDATE:
Seems someone overheard this: Univ of Alberta's Mike Getz

micro royalty

why don't we have the likes of Google evolving a system for a micro-royalty payment.

With the proliferation of micro-ideas through blogs and other viral ways, it only makes sense to have a system that tracks back the original creator and rewards him for his contribution.

A reward system such as this for blogging, along with a peer-to-peer giving and/ or lending network will be on my top-10, most-needed list in this web 2.0 era.

adopt a country

I will always remember 2006 as the year when Adopt-A-School gave way to Adopt-A- Country.

securitize this

Talking of patent trolls, why don't we have companies securitizing their patents.

The move to synthetic and hybrid securities, makes me wonder will we also see the days where a given security (say, stocks) will be decomposed into its constituents and traded independently. Say, a company's brand-name, strength of their ip and so on.

I predict a big industry around this solely because of the profits it can bring to the investment banks that can underwrite it and the research departments that will trumpet them.

Sounds dumb to me right now, maybe when thinking of it as incentives-driven it makes sense?!.

y! insure against patent trolls

With these lawsuits abound i am surprised to not see much news of insurance companies willing to insure companies against such risks.

Something that amounts to giving companies some sort of patent-liability protection. Seems to me that a well developed market in this space should be good for everyone.