I had to use the Wayback Machine to locate something I posted on one of my first websites circa 2001 and poked around a bit.
I found my Ideas List. Some of them are still kind of interesting. Snippets of scenes in films, or bits of dialog where you have to determine what the story is about and what the denouement is. [What Shorts are now to some degree] Alternate Local Transport - Private bus line that only makes trips to stores, cleaners, etc. There would be 4 regions, each with its own schedule, picking up passengers to go to the market, where it would stay for 1 hour to 90 minutes and return, dropping people off at their homes. The bus would burn clean fuel and have a large cargo capacity. If there is a prolonged fossil fuel crisis, there will need to be these types of alternatives to cars. [In the future this will be the driverless Uber. But the problem in the US is that the infrastructure isn't maintained enough to support it] Once vast amounts of video, audio and text can be stored on a disk, some media giant should produce a disk for each year 1970-1980 for example. That way when we feel nostalgic (and we all will once we get sick of the vanguard) we can immerse ourselves in the memes of the past. (Boomers will LOVE this come 2010!) [Essentailly YouTube] Portable movie theater that can be transported to neighborhood parks on balmy summer evenings. [We now have the inflatable screens] A band that just stands there and plays a tape of their songs. The philosophy is, "I've already played it and why should I play it again when you really came here to be with the crowd." (Actually, when I think about it this is the way the Beatles were thinking when they stopped touring.) [This is a current rant about legacy bands playing to backing tracks] Invent some type of neck warmer for the bass. It would wrap around with Velcro-like a blood-pressure cuff and would have a heating element powered by batteries. It could also come with a set of heated gloves. [I still think this is a good idea. There's nothing like a warmed-up neck] Instead of sampling music from the past, sample it from the present, and in 20 years it will sound retro. (But how which you know what will be culturally relevant?) Stage an event, (publicity stunt) where a group would construct the face on Mars on Earth. A camera that applies random affects so that you never know what the print will look like. Music released like software, where you can "upgrade" albums or collections, a series of songs that continually develops and unfolds (like a soap opera). [I do this now with videos of released music with "upgrades"] A new job title: "Web salvage technician": collects and archives Web sites that no one longer can maintain. [This is what the Wayback Machine is] Weekly summaries of your own life, things you thought about, plans you've made, but have forgotten about. Idea for character: plays lead role, but you never see them, only hear about them at the end of the story. [This has already been done, but not sure where, It seems to be a universal trope]. Idea for story: a conservative corporate CEO becomes a rock n roll icon. [Ha!] Characters that evolve into other characters and take on the characteristics of those people in ironic ways. Folk news reporting, where anyone with a modicum of investigation skill can cover and report news. [Wildly ironic and prescient] Idea for character: a corrupt cop who's a shareholder in an entertainment company that promotes a band called The Murderers (they actually exist) who are known in the underground for doing snuff concerts and getting away with it. (Will the world ever get this bad?) Yes, it has. Various odors emitted into urban areas such as pine, strawberry, cinnamon, etc. for brief moments. (Possible name: Institute for Local Smells, Urban Potpourri) Edge ideas/activities: those that exert an influence on central ideas stuck in the center. Stories based on want ads--how did the story ultimately unfold? Clothing made completely out of computer screens. [Almost old at this point] Scene for a movie: Heated presidential campaign, underdog plots murder of front runner, front runner kidnapped by a religious cult and killed underdog and winds up winning the election--they made the murder look like an accident. [Our world at the moment. This is the whole idea about Disaster Movies: our imagination for telling stories is the projector on the screen of our world--also called The Collective Unconscious] Story where everyone is a victim of context by virtue of their race, socioeconomic status, ethnicity [Our world at the moment}
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I had this idea yesterday for a possible book. It's essentially what the In Sum series is but is more gleaned from the internet and social media. But the downside is that it might not have any veracity vis-a-vis AI-generated stuff.
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