Automating this innovation stuff :)
Bryan Bishop
So I just got facebook notification of InnovationCamp weekend. It's on
my calendar. Earlier tonight, just before I checked my email and saw
the FB notification, I was writing a document on collaboration for
do-it-yourself, collaborative, F/OSS biotech toolkits:
http://heybryan.org/new_exp.html
The idea there is to use the software infrastructure available to help
smooth the ride along and to encourage *progress* by physically
implementing all of the knowledge into a mostly self-replicable
bioreactor kit that would include organisms to produce the majority of
materials to use the entire system in some way (i.e., inserting a new
gene, running gels, whatever). Minimal external "awkward" inputs.
Anyway, that's related to a broader project that I am working on:
http://oscomak.net/
http://heybryan.org/exp.html
The idea is that automated manufacturing can be done in a garage, shed,
or some other enclosure, by an amateur, if we "bootstrap" the entire
community. We can also work towards total self-replication (a design
strategy that helps even RepRap, for example). Should anybody have new
ideas, they just add it to the repositories and people can get updates
and see what they can use. Just like innovative software and debian's
apt-get system.
The biotech toolkit already has a git repository going, I might add.
http://heybryan.org/gitweb.cgi
http://heybryan.org/biotech.git
Anyway, this goes towards a few other ideas I have.
http://heybryan.org/mediawiki/index.php/Sustained_attention
I'm building a setup to promote sustained attention sesisons while on a
computer, doing research or programming and the like. The idea is that
the brain is usually distracted and "kicked out" from "being in the
zone". This is not good and should be prevented at all costs. Given the
reduction of attentional effort required to be innovative, what would
come of this? The setup itself is coming along smoothly, and the
biomedical instrumentation is 'cooking' but otherwise I'm optimistic.
I think this might be some relative topics I would like to talk with
others at InnovationCamp with. I'm sending this email so that others
can be prepared or tell me not to bother to attend ;-). I think these
are good, effective models for innovation-proliferation, however.
We'll see. :)
All the best,
- Bryan
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http://heybryan.org/
Todd Sundsted
Very interesting! I won't speak for anyone else, but my grad research
was in biomedical engineering and neuroscience, so I enjoy topics like
this (specifically the brain research on attention, but also the
broader application of OSS models to information). A couple
thoughts... I expect a couple guys who are involved in transhumanism
to show up. If you haven't met them already, you'd probably enjoy
talking to them. I also expect a few people from the UAB Dept of
Public Health to come (I need to confirm this). They are working on a
large dataset urban mapping project that might use some of the same
technology you mention in your writing on the biotech toolkits. I
can't guarantee they'll both be there, but this is exactly the mix of
ideas and interests we're shooting for.
Todd
On Jun 14, 12:06 am, Bryan Bishop <kanz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> So I just got facebook notification of InnovationCamp weekend. It's on
> my calendar. Earlier tonight, just before I checked my email and saw
> the FB notification, I was writing a document on collaboration for
> do-it-yourself, collaborative, F/OSS biotech toolkits:
>
> http://heybryan.org/new_exp.html
>
> The idea there is to use the software infrastructure available to help
> smooth the ride along and to encourage *progress* by physically
> implementing all of the knowledge into a mostly self-replicable
> bioreactor kit that would include organisms to produce the majority of
> materials to use the entire system in some way (i.e., inserting a new
> gene, running gels, whatever). Minimal external "awkward" inputs.
>
> Anyway, that's related to a broader project that I am working on:
> http://oscomak.net/
> http://heybryan.org/exp.html
>
> The idea is that automated manufacturing can be done in a garage, shed,
> or some other enclosure, by an amateur, if we "bootstrap" the entire
> community. We can also work towards total self-replication (a design
> strategy that helps even RepRap, for example). Should anybody have new
> ideas, they just add it to the repositories and people can get updates
> and see what they can use. Just like innovative software and debian's
> apt-get system.
>
>
> Anyway, this goes towards a few other ideas I have.http://heybryan.org/mediawiki/index.php/Sustained_attention
Bryan Bishop
> Very interesting! I won't speak for anyone else, but my grad
> research was in biomedical engineering and neuroscience, so I enjoy
> topics like this (specifically the brain research on attention, but
> also the broader application of OSS models to information). A couple
> thoughts... I expect a couple guys who are involved in transhumanism
> to show up. If you haven't met them already, you'd probably enjoy
> talking to them. I also expect a few people from the UAB Dept of
> Public Health to come (I need to confirm this). They are working on
> a large dataset urban mapping project that might use some of the same
> technology you mention in your writing on the biotech toolkits. I
> can't guarantee they'll both be there, but this is exactly the mix of
> ideas and interests we're shooting for.
Hey Todd,
I was worried for a few days there that I had violated some sort of
sacred rule of barcamps by announcing the general subject areas that I
was thinking of showing up with. :-) I guess not. :-)
There's a few Austin-area transhumanism groups like Austin
Intelligentsia, with Max More (extropy) and Natasha (transhuman arts),
Alex Future Bokov (civilization-in-a-box), and then the meetup group
(79) with Aaron Burnell who I was visiting last night, viewing an
amazing video on building brains. There's also Sam Taylor, who has been
trying to throw up atxfuture.org in his spare time when away from his
sociology thesis, and the geneal Austin Maker Faire crowd that I met up
with a few weeks ago. Great people. Things are moving towards some
software infrastructure for getting some real transhuman tech going,
actual implementation and so on.
As for the Department of Public Health, I don't know if I'd scare them
or be of use to them. I suppose a little of both. The concept of taking
responsibility for health with biotech toolkits for anybody to pickup
and start using is new, since typical health care debates centralize
around economics and politics, rather than actually solving the
problems. I'm sure we can throw in a few mentions like that at
Innovation Camp, get some buzz going that could end up being a net
positive effect.