Residential to Humantarian

[Ryan Gigous]

Good evening,
My name is Ryan Gigous from Topeka. I originated the idea of
renaming our city Google, Kansas. I would like to thank Google for the
gesture of renaming their business Topeka on April 1st.

My business partner, Matthew Gassen and I have created a company,
Winston/Meriwether, a business consulting company, that specializes in
ideas to help businesses and communities.

In order to make Topeka more attractive for Google, it is imperative
our community demonstrates how our projects will have an intrinsic
value of helping not only Topeka, but people throughout the world.

From Google's Fiber for Communities page "Imagine sitting in a rural
health clinic, streaming three-dimensional medical imaging over the
web, and discussing a unique condition with a specialist in New York.
Or downloading a high-definition, full-length feature film in less
than five minutes. Or collaborating with classmates around the world
while watching live 3D video of a university lecture. Universal, ultra
high-speed Internet access will make all this, and more possible."

Topeka recognizes the importance and value for the expansion this
technology for people throughout the world. The following ideas are
intended to benefit people in Topeka, the United States, and those who
are less fortunate throughout the world. We are focusing on three
specific areas; Education, Humanitarian, and Science/Medical.

I) Education
A) The Rural Urban Renewal Project
A classroom of students in small town in Western Kansas
collaborating with a classroom of students in an urban school district
of Topeka. They are working on a science project for a national
science fair.
At the same time, they are learning to understand one another unique
experiences growing up under their own circumstances and drastically
different environments.

II) Humanitarian
A) Map Cities in Third World Countries

Currently, there are many cities, where there are not streets/road
identified. Having faster internet access will allow the coordination
of mapping these cities to occur sooner.

B) Build food replicators
Create machines where food would be broken down, scanned,
and copied based off of their molecular makeup. We could create a
database to store each different kind of food. Clearly, there would be
have to the proper infrastructure in place, but we could send these
machines to parts of the world where it is hard to ship food.


III) Science/Medical
A) Grid Computing - Imagine your technology powering the hardware
that is searching for life beyond our planet, curing the incurable,
and speeding the way to a better education for children everywhere.
Topeka + Google + YOU can do amazing things.For example, by
effectively building upon the world's fastest grid computing
opportunity, we hope to create the ability for high-speed
collaboration with the many projects currently operating, and the many
more that will certainly develop. Right now your equipment could power
the infrastructure that supports the modeling economic forecasts or
listens for sounds from space. Whether its protein folding, or
advancing mathematics research, the bandwidth and speed of the fiber
network will make it possible for researchers around the world to tap
into the processing power of our personal and work computers - at
light speed. The cure for disease and the discovery of the unknown.
That, changes the world. Put together, our computers could be
interacting with others in order to achieve a common goal – but they
need clean and efficient power.


B) Mute Voice Device Project
Create a device to help people who are mute speak. The machine
would read the thoughts of the user and say what that person is
thinking.


C) Holographic Doctor for your home
Imagine you are sick and can't get a hold of your doctor. You need
a professional. Simply turn on your CPU/projection device. Completely
interactive.


We understand the ideas are not fully developed, but believe as we
continue to collaborate with others, these ideas can become a
reality.

Very sincerely yours,

Ryan Gigous

[matthewgassen]

We created this separate post, hoping that others would elaborate
upon, debate the merits of, or contribute to the thoughts that we have
had...even if far-fetched.

Specifically, we see the opportunities for the bandwidth benefitting
the three above key areas.

Within those, we have proposed some mainstream and and some clearly
out of the box ideas. Either way, we'd enjoy hearing what others have
to say, and we're confident that somewhere here are the paths to
revolutionary and beneficial progress.

Thank you!

-Matt