On More Research

If we all spent as much time doing serious research, scientific or otherwise, as we spend researching the best HDTV, car, computer, etc. to buy, just imagine what we could accomplish.

Ideas and Profit

Companies need two brains that talk to each other every once in a while. One brain should be the dreamer, NOT so worried about the deliverable, the practical, or the profitable. The other brain should be the doer, ALL about the execution, the implementation, and the cost-profit calcs. Most of us should not be given over to either brain exclusively or else we risk becoming stale. Further still, fresh profitable ideas come from brains that are not always concentrated on the profitable and those ideas do not become or remain fantasy so long as sharpened, worked and hammered into reality in the form of profitable solutions.

On Space-Time and the Universe

If all of the electromagnetic radiation we can sense from space using various types of receivers, including the visible spectrum, actually represents views into the universe at different times based on the distance of an object to earth and the speed of light, then all that we know about huge parts of the universe is based on data that is thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years old. If we could see the universe instantaneously or at times near what we are accustomed to with close objects, what would we see? How different would our understanding of the universe be? Considering the magnitude of the distances between celestial bodies like galaxies, what is time when measured using human standards like days and years? For all we know, large portions of the universe will have been destroyed and reborn several times by the time we see the light from such areas. For that mater, if the universe began to end in some distant part relative to us, how long would it be before we were even aware of such?

Conceive Significant Actionable Concepts

Millions of people have new ideas about important subjects all of the time but either do not act on them for a myriad of reasons or a vital connection is never made between the new idea or partial idea and other new or existing ideas. However, with a toolkit consisting of the internet, present information technology, and software, we should be able to make many more of the types of connections between partial or whole ideas necessary to conceive of complete significant actionable concepts. I say "should" because the only thing missing for all of this to come to fruition is for individuals and groups to invent or learn to use and implement processes that continually explore the assumptions, boundaries, and intersections of current knowledge sets from different perspectives under various contexts. I started Concept Explore to help people do just that.