Seeing the forest all at once, knowledge discovery and data mining

A demand exists for developing methods to learn from vast data sets like those related to climate studies, macroeconomics analysis, etc. We might be able to discover knowledge by looking at these massive databases as single entities with features that can be compared from one instance of a set to another.

Multi-state transistors beyond binary

What could be done with a transistor capable of n-states?

With the advent of molecular switches and nanotech as well as optical and/or quantum based computing we may soon be presented with the opportunity to think about algorithms and software engineering in completely different ways. With limited fuzzy logic implemented in hardware like analog, we may be able to take wholly new approaches to many of the most complex problems.

PUBLIC SEARCH CACHE INDEX: Searching the web without search engine sites

If web sites or rather their addresses were organized in some meaningful ways that had to do with verified content and/or purpose, then we would not need search engine sites.

Easily accessible public domain registeries of urls mapped to content categories with listings verified by some independent bodies, not DMOZ, would go a long way in making the vast internet searchable by means other than search engine sites. Make the internet searchable to personal search bots, intelligent agents, or web services accessed and launched by individual users from their own machines or hosted machines.

What I am suggesting is something like a PUBLIC SEARCH CACHE INDEX like the Google indices but owned by not-for-profit PUBLIC entities. Do it people!