First Post - Random Ideas

There are these homeless people in Chicago, selling "street wise" paper which basically is a set of articles, they can sell and get money instead of begging etc. Well there was this old woman selling them and I felt bad for her and bought a paper from her for a dollar, she said thank you for even looking at me and that started me thinking, why is it that poor people are always bad to look at. Would the sale of streetwise jump up if we had scantily clad or even some beautiful girl selling street wise, now coming to think of one, that would be cool. I bet the sales of street wise would perk up (nice perky things those), why some guy would even go up to her and say, are you home less, i am home more, i want to share, we could even do cute guys for the girls and gay people. Stupid as this thought might seem, it might be worthwhile to try having a beautiful beggar vs an ugly beggar. I read this book by rohinton mistry sometime back "A Fine Balance" where the beggarmaster actually searches for disfigured and ugly people as they get more alms, but would the other way round work?

Walking down Clark St another idea struck me, to introduce bullock carts as a novel family transport on the streets of chicago. Its a great bio friendly transportation vehicle, the whole family can enjoy, no problems of DUI etc, unless you get the bull drunk, what sort of sick guy would get his bull drunk, I mean isnt it a huge waste of alcohol. The bull could be the designated driver, it would take the take the guy home when he is drunk, this wonderful thing would solve the energy crisis, the middle east problem, alcohol related accidents, and what not.

On that note, I think the future is self driving carts, maybe machine driven, it reads your destination or you could key it in and it will automatically take you there. Its like transporting data packets in todays networks, the cart would take which ever route available (shortest estimated time to destination) and get you to your destination, we can move tansportation off the streets. This would lake care of accidents, traffic jams, angry drivers and other driving related problems. These carts could seat single passengers or a group, its almost like a cab, but smaller, like an automatic pod, three dimensional in travelling dimension and faster.

ofcourse teleprotation is DA BOMB, thats the ultimate goal......