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Invest in making our kids think science is cool again
Our children no longer want to be scientists and they think math is for nerds. Create some initiatives to make science cooler for young children. Create some programs in elementary schools to get kids interested early in science and technology.
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Develop Hydrogen Cars
Basically use the hydrogen as a battery using electrolysis. Refill at home or at a station by taking in H2 and O2 and giving back H_2O. Make it a closed system that simply takes rising ocean water out of the environment and otherwise is independent of the environment.
The car can convert the H2 and O2 into water and use the energy released to propel the car. We can also reuse energy absorbed by breaks and heat converters to create more H2 and O2 with electrolysis.
I don't really think this should be used…
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Create an educational backplane to make education free
MIT and other educational institutions offer some of their material through Open Courseware.
Please setup a system where every school receiving federal funding has to participate in the development of courseware for an online college so that everyone has free (or extremely inexpensive) access to an undergraduate degree in the growing industries (green collar, biotech and engineering)
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fund the NASA highway in the sky program
From an ecological perspective, highways and automobiles cause more damage than many other actions man performs. Expediting the transition to sky cars will not only allow ecosystems to exist as they once did (i.e. without an interstate highway cutting them in half), but will also allow us to spend less money on maintenance. Plus, sky cars would be faster, easier to implement autopilot functions on than street cars, and could totally revolutionize society in many other ways. If we actually invested in this idea, we could have the first cars flying around out there in 5-10 years, maybe even less.…
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is not a Chicago thug, thief or bagman
We are getting to many thugs from Chicago in Washington DC. This will corrupt the honest ways of Washington DC. Barney Frank needs the time to help the Auto Industry like he bankrupted the loan industry.
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Build universal tech infrastructure for public services
A consistent, frequently updated, and easily accessible portal for federal, state, and local services that makes it easy for people to find the and be informed about the services they need, the ways in which they can get involved.
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Legal decisions & legislation should be public & searchable
Today legal decisions and even legislation itself is often closed behind "walled gardens" and hard to search, or even copyrighted so it cannot be easily cited and re-used. Legal decisions and legislation should be open and available to all. The specifics of redaction due to personal or other security would need to be decided.
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Create a reults-oriented performance contract for Congress
Everyone has a performance metric against which they are judged on a regular, sometimes annual basis. Voting someone out of office is not a reasonable or efficient mechanism for changing the performance of Congress. We need to set a prioritized national agenda against which Congress could be judged on an quarterly, bi-yearly or annual basis. There is no results-orientation in Washington. Nothing ever gets done, we need to create a mechanism where by Congress has defined goals and their performance against the achievement of those goals is measured regularly, publicly and with consequence.
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Restore innovation to government research programs
Change the organizational structure of government funded research programs so that the government administrators are encouraged to have their programs take some risks and actually innovate. Rather than continue their programs for life, give these administrators internal "term limits" before they move on to another program. And evaluate their performance partly on how well their programs do.
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finally put an end to the scourge of Rick-Rolling.
This must come to an end! It has been years and people are still doing this to me! We have the power to make this CHANGE. Yes We Can!
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Participate in tech standard-setting organizations
Stakeholder organizations develop standards for emerging technology and interoperability all the time. They shape our technological world more than any law in Washington, but the federal government doesn't contribute to their work. This is Larry Lessig's point in his book Code, and Joel Reidenberg writes about it too.
The CTO should engage with standard-setting organizations -- to learn from them, to contribute government perspectives to them, and then to support the results of their efforts.
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Broadcast News Quality Rating System
Adopt a Broadcast News Quality Rating System - details available at www.ceasespin.org
On-Air broadcast news reports carry quality symbols/labels that describe the degree to which the news story was produced adhering to journalism ethics standards: ex. 5 stars for high quality journalsim - 0 stars for rumors/tabloid level journalism. Standard can be developed similar to other standards such as MPAA, RIAA or TV Rating system. Prototype can be viewed at CeaseSPIN.org. Contact Winston Jordan (908) 391-0216 to view White Paper. Concept is an strong alternative to the Fairness Doctrine. It does not infringe on speech or press rights, but empowers…1 vote -
Reform and simplify software procurement standards
Traditional government procurement standards are full of barriers that build complexity, transactions cost, and time into each process. The possible benefits of the complexity are extremely disproportionate to their cost, favor larger vendors who have a vested interest in perpetuating that complexity. This results in inhibiting innovation, and eroding the US's competitive position in the world as other countries leapfrog the US. We build large scale acquisitions that result in unmanageable contracts of 100's of millions of dollars when fairly inexpensive software solutions exist, or can be easily developed, The government would benefit from the shared cost of software development…
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