Originally posted by Mick_2003
It's so sad the human race that is, I mean I sit there and read responses to topics on a couple of forums, news, misc etc...and I just wonder how come we have so many stupid people all over the world. I think it comes down to the fact that people don't read...I mean what the fark, are we just coming up with each persons individual version of history...very disappointing, but then I've always been disappointed in the human race, so what else is new.
This reminds me of a very telling discussion that my boo was telling me about the other day. My boo currently works in a pharmacy as a pharm tech (boy that dual chem / philosophy degree is really paying off!), and one of the lead pharmacists was talking about some pharmaceutical. So my boo mentions that there is nice book which explains the pharmaceutical action of that class of drugs (I believe this was a tropane alkaloid like a scopolamine patch or something) and the pharmacist turned and said, "You read books? I don't have the patience for that kind of thing..." And this was a pharmacist raking in like 80+ grand a year, who is supposed to give people sound pharmaceutical advice! (And yes, from the retelling, it appears the pharmacist had some incorrect notions on the action)...
Also posted by Mick_2003
So that brings me to thinking of advancing the field of hologram technology...I mean always looking for something to start my own buisness and do something else for the world besides discarding used condoms in random places....I figure if we could make history and stories more interactive, then maybe people wouldn't be so tempted to make s_h_i_t up as they see fit, heck just the revenue from the porn angle would make me richer than bill gates/murdoc or which ever clown in the lead, isn't it a jap for the world lead in useless possesions. All I need is some good booze, a couple of fast rice burners, some rad RPG games, an occasinal bong hit (whoops didn't mean that), hmm I'm pretty easy...also on that note, did you know that sony released a couple of games that are using it's motion sensor camera that they are selling (usb plug in on the ps2), where it tracks motion to play the games, man do you see a market for that, I sure do...
One thing I notice missing fro your list of applications is education. I still think that the "next great thing" in the technological world will be from education. Everyone needs it (6 billion + potential market), and the place where education goes wrong these days seems to be with the static books and the static whiteboards / chalkboards that don't really give anyone the actual insight to things that have a motion or allow for any actual interaction. And I mean even things like math, where you can actually show visually the manipulations and pieces moving around during a proof, or any of the many science fields. Reading words on a page and forming the mental images is a great skill that should also be taught, but it really will be more of a historically important thing (this was how our ancestors used to record their speeches and stories... long ago before we had computers and other devices that could record sound and images and allow you to interact with them) than an actual useful thing once we get our education up to par with our technology. Alot of things need to be done to get the attention of our information-drowning generations hopped up on Ritalin and looking for something, anything interesting to pass by their wandering consciousness. But maybe I'm giving away too many of my own career plans here...

Oh, and to be perfectly kosher, you should probably call it a water pipe, or else they might throw you out of the store...
Also posted by Mick_2003
hmm so I guess I'll have to go do some research and round up some VC (and no I'm not talking viet cong here)...hmm I need to read up on fuzzy math and accounting practices of great CEO's while I'm at it.....
Yeah... but pick your list of CEOs to study carefully. The "great" ones of this past decade have either been extremely ambitious (which is, in my opinion, a good thing, though it can land you in the legal minefield that MS has had to shuffle through) or extremely fraudulent (though, with good connections, you won't ever be charged!)... Both ways have made the CEOs billions of dollars, but they don't seem somehow as ingenious as someone like Ford...