Musk level ideas

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1	Current count: 282. One line per tweet/response. Not broken up into individual ideas.
2	Note #1: am including flippant responses, since they still reveal interesting things about values, attention focus etc.
3	Note #2: This is completely raw. No filtering for quality, clarity or anything. Use as you will.
4	Note #3: Ideas in purple at bottom are from parallel Facebook thread

5	a CO2 pipeline from CCS facilities on earth to Mars
6	Rebuild the steel and metals industry to be like the days of Carnegie
7	Since blockchain is a distributed database, maybe combine it with distributed machine learning: http://t.co/Fz6Lzaat7t
8	a drone network to deliver critical medical items and conduct search for disaster relief
9	satellites as a service - provision and use a satellite like an ec2 instance
10	Space colonies and 2. step up the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
11	a new way to experience the internet via VR tools like Oculus Rift. I've had some thoughts here, ping if you want a download.
12	Reinvent transportation: computer controlled roads w/ transport unit, deliveries underground in tubes. It's sub-optimal now.
13	Earthport http://t.co/iJ4sSBuFOv
14	Huge leap in global abundance, Utopian.. All energy and attention channelled to science and art
15	Mars colony?
16	Human/computer - optimize labour ---> xx million jobs.
17	Generic infrastructure to scan/search/edit biological data structures, "Software eats Biology". Killer app #1: cancer
18	building the greenest all-electric economic city in the UK with the possibility to find info and report all the problems within one app
19	taking down worldwide deep-seated systematic corruption. <oh, and im working on this, btw>. pic.twitter.com/LYqoNATb73
20	Finding a way to extract energy out of ocean water (big battery) on large scale to compensate global warming & energy problem
21	Ultimate goal is for everyone to be an Elon. Think Limitless with precise control, no side effects = Next productivity miracle.
22	electronic mood control.
23	get iPhones in the hands of every street kid in the world
24	Cure for cancer, artificial organs/bionic parts, alternative energy, deep sea exploration/mapping
25	still waiting for wireless power that doesn't require a charging pad.
26	* cure aging. * distributed everything = ec power, political power, meshed networking, apps etc..
27	I'd be original and go into Solar, Space, and Electric ... bikes.
28	make a robot like in "I,robot"/book , try to create food that grows on the moon, work on immortality, either or
29	i'd build a healthcare corp that could hold its own against big pharma and monsanto... Develop new alt med school + change everything
30	Teleportation.
31	Low-cost, scalable tech to bring education to ppl w/ no access. Imagine impact tomorrow of educating 1bn underserved children today?
32	can I add one more? A way to make micro-seed investments in the world's undiscovered entrepreneurs in underdeveloped countries.
33	social security in developing world
34	Education. It might require more than 10 years.
35	orbiting space station where you can register your corporation and pay 0% taxes. This 2% rate in Ireland is getting out of hand
36	Explore the ideas of basic income and economics of abundance (rather than scarcity).
37	transform all Earth's deserts into fruit tree forests by viral deployment of low cost Israeli Negev arid land irrigation tech
38	look for the fountain of youth
39	Credentials that are cheap, decentralised, digital, dynamic and granular instead of expensive, centralised, physical, static and vague.
40	the Milwaukee @Bucks winning an @NBA championship. #iknowthatisnotveryrealistic
41	1: School bus boats for Lake Titicaca, kids there row for hours to get to school. 2: 1st world public transport for Bay Area.
42	I'd fix housing for ppl in the 20th-60th percentile that have income but not real security. Instead I'm still just inching toward it.
43	Revitalization of electrochemistry: now relevant due to electron abundance (solar) and extra-earth resource refining.
44	Ah, somehow quantum communications were not mentioned (but it is already happening, see qwcap.com/en/forinvestor)
45	I would put my money into funding startups in flyover states and the south. Spread economic growth past the coasts.
46	plz add "make something to do the work of baby sitter - solve problems of infants crying to raise productivity of parents"
47	oh man, being batman, how did I miss that opportunity
48	easy ask @BoredElonMusk
49	I'd do for housing what the tech has done w its goods - raise quality while increasing access & lowering cost.
50	integration to prevent & fight #wildfire (creates ~ 2 X carbon emissions of coal-fired power).
51	we need new commuter rail infrastructure. @NJTRANSIT would be a perfect contender
52	something like collective paint with embedded nano at scale with high efficiency & tesla battery? Yes pls
53	a high-speed train from Penn Station to JFK
54	I'd like to buy the world a coke.
55	build a Pipeline for East-West water transfer to ease West coast drought with East coast's excess snow.
56	permaculture colonies globally... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permacult…
57	m thinking more in the realm of compacting down to A/C sized unit to power entire home independently.
58	intersection of tech and human memory- computers don't delete, they forget where things are. Society doesn't delete, it...
59	reduce wealth and opportunity inequality globally. Arguably as BHAG as space exploration. Think Gates.
60	change the Banking system upside-down!
61	Digital governance
62	EEG-based device that does same without needing to twitch muscles. newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/22/bra…
63	Solarcity Microgrid: goo.gl/bcBEKD
64	cheap or free wifi in poor countries.
65	turn dead bats into drones
66	I can’t vouch for higher education but I’m a big believer in investing in people
67	Seed Silicon Valley 2 in a geologically stable area, so that 90% of the tech industry does not get destroyed in a single earthquake.
68	Find a safe, cost-effective way of producing energy via fusion.
69	VC for firms that provide systemic improvement to Bottom of Pyramid. Create the market & valuations for next Valleys, not next Unicorns
70	free individual mental / emotional / psychological counseling delivered remotely and on-demand for people under 21 years old
71	solve plastic in oceans issue. I like the notion of using it to make pycrete iceberg islands in the Pacific.
72	desal, lab-grown meat, mental health research, crowdfunding conservation.
73	I'd hire the best minds in education and try and reform the system.
74	disrupting housework/laundry
75	Form new nation state with constitution founded in libertarian principles,v.high threshold 4 new laws,systemic pruning of same
76	end aging with @senstweet approach or ai/nanotech development
77	Micro-transport (via drones?) on a global scale. 100k vaccines across 100k sq miles of rural country delivered personally to your door?
78	3D printing large molecules for in home pharma via Rx'd proprietary formulations
79	Convert an entire country to 100% organic and sustainable consumption/activity.
80	fix bottlenecks in the global food supply chain.
81	AI. Why compete with robots? Let them invent stuff.
82	roads. Better road tech with roads able to generate and store energy.its one of the best distribution channel we have
83	grav-tech; second and tertiary-order meta-materials; better radiation shielding; power transmission via quantum effects. Could go on...
84	water and farming
85	offer a suite of distributed services: distributed wikis, p2p media sharing, social networks a'la Diaspora, education programs, etc.
86	retraining for people whose jobs get automated.
87	didn't see the obvious of teleportation listed
88	durable, modular mesh network nodes that can be run off solar, car batteries, whatever. Focus on Africa, where more spectrum is free.
89	find techniques to control strong/weak forces and gravity, at the level we've learned to control EM.
90	By buying Apple
91	AI gives everyone a personal assistant that's connected, aware, almost sentient. Just voice an idea and make it real.
92	I have a crazy solar desalination idea I would flesh out.
93	a solution that doesn't rely on under-compensated labor and whose external costs don't outweigh its benefits.
94	I'd build a robot that can terraform mars over the (very) long term. Self-replicating robots that can use Martian materials.
95	convincing 70 million Americans to stop paying for our global military empire, free up that commonwealth for far more productive use
96	Discovering new sources of energy extraction from the universe.
97	Work on unbundling college education vs college credentialing. Focus on the latter as a separate task.
98	cure obesity-->decrease hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, & cancer, also increase longevity-->healthcare crisis solved!
99	I'd try for two: 1) solving the growing global retirement crisis 2) recapitalizing U.S. homeowners to lower debt
100	energy storage device using big holes and heavy weights.
101	Improving urban life ergonomics. Urbanization rate is high and the next decade promises some interesting challenges.
102	Fully functional robotic exo-skeleton that allows paraplegic and quadriplegic patients to walk
103	Augmented Learning', implants connect with the brain to 'upload' any new program. Just like Neo learned Kung-fu in the matrix
104	Our energy production/portability/transport problems. Probably using Graphene and nanotechnology with photovoltaics or ultrasound
105	Build out maniputable hologram technology to enable multilocation telepresence; Robotic Arm affordable light manufacturing.
106	decouple energy from the grid - once that's done, the energy could become liquid. Actually, Musk may be working on
107	Identify traits of bold Musk-like leaders, find them, train them and find bold VC funded big project goals for them to lead
108	aircraft where even midair disintegration survivable- breaks into many pieces, each comes down Mars Lander style pic.twitter.com/3W3FABpknv
109	definitely 1. digital telepathy 2.producing synthetic mitochondria
110	hypercapitalism. hypercapitalism.info
111	reform higher education financing from a debt based model to an equity based one. We invest in cos with equity, why not ppl?
112	HEART OF DARKNESS inspired film shot on location in Mid East after WWI w/ British, American companies looking for oil
113	Either plug-n-play mesh network routers or tethered solar aerostat above the cloud level.
114	develop tastes for scientific attitudes from young? Find and fund the next 100 Bill Nye the Science Guys
115	ear piece that "reads" micro muscle movements in jaw and translates to synthetic voice
116	Controversial, but in light of coming civilizational challenges, super-intelligence and singularity. 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2…
117	net-positive fusion power.
118	cure multiple sclerosis & muscular dystrophy
119	subtopics: autonomous robotics, closed-circuit life support, new social paradigms for closed-circuit communities.
120	imagine education as a subtle tutorial AR layer over reality that responds to your wants and needs
121	underwater cities as a hedge against the Seveneves scenario as well as preparation for deep space exploration.
122	A toilet seat that doesn't shift off the bowl when torqued side to side.
123	To better the human race- a cannabis seed crop grown to produce millions of achenes, then scattering from planes globally
124	upload human consciousness to the network for artificial immortality.
125	catch this stray dog who keeps eating my garbage
126	Global satellite based banking system, available 24/7 on smartphones and tablets, across all major currencies. No need for a wallet.
127	Education reform - requires loads of capital and a long term horizon, but huge potential multiplier effect
128	Cure all mosquito-borne diseases and save 1M lives/yr using CRISPR gene drives to make mosquitoes not smell humans.
129	concentrated hydroponic farming and resource stability for space travel
130	Global alternate pollinator on-demand service.
131	wolverine level bioengineering
132	1) Software bots for better life (working on it) 2) Robotic ecosystems -> sustain humans 3) Univ for unraveling mind of god.
133	Building a #TARDIS.
134	lab on a chip.
135	a home entertainment server, w wall-mounted screens that simulcast mobile apps or video, controlled by iPhone. Oh wait...
136	r Robots! It's time we got rid of flavorless fruits and veg. #precisionagriculture
137	I would spend money to build a device that could travel faster than light
138	human genetic engineering
139	"O.P.U.S." (= "One Process, Unlimited Solutions") (c: @VincentWright @Venturese @Brandergy )
140	Understand and break the link between early life, negative experiences and long term antisocial behavior.
141	VR and VR media to distribute experiences -> setting up a worldwide engine of empathy
142	Global satellite based banking system, available 24/7 on smartphones and tablets, across all major currencies. No need for a wallet.
143	thorium reactors. Low temp superconductivity, algae farms, mental health research, alternative judicial systems
144	safe nano tech. to use in lieu of agricultural pesticides.
145	Even boring old fashion industry is to be disrupted by personalized 3d-printed clothes
146	non lethal drone interceptor for protection from small arms fire (flying shield/bullet trap)
147	I'm guessing with that kind of money and time I could probably get my woodshop cleaned up and organized.
148	replacing every member of congress with Scandinavians
149	augmented reality + Ed tech. Imagine learning about quantum physics by making your classroom the center of a supercollider.
150	Or perhaps taking on already developed cheap space airplane transport system buran.ru/images/jpg/mak…
151	Lightcraft en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightcraft
152	Definitely flying cars! Tired of I-66 traffic :)
153	Electroceuticals: connect a device to your nervous system and install software medications http://t.co/HCOAVOHsiP
154	Zero carbon, low cost seawater desalination.
155	Private research university with minimal classes/campus Aggressive focus on delivering both short and long term returns.
156	life extension
157	Desalination at scale will require scalable, clean, cheap energy: like new promising fission @Transatomic
158	create the world's largest innovation prize competition platform to seed lots of little ideas.
159	How about increase housing density west of the 280 w/ high speed trains through Palo Alto to Google?
160	radical energy recovery technology, then products for the masses. With ~unlimited energy you can desalinate, cure, do almost anything.
161	modern, cheap desalination plants
162	imagine if you could capture and sell the hydrogen cheaper than gasoline - you would have zero emission engines at scale
163	an alternative to pure capitalism.
164	Multigigawatt scale solar farms using automated array placement.
165	any combustion engine can be made to run on hydrogen and everyday we throw away enough H2 for 1M+ vehicles in North America.
166	Nuclear fusion - unlikely you would profit, but could advance the engineering by ~35 years in the space of 5 in private sector
167	a nationwide chain of vegan restaurants.
168	Combine strong AI and Quantum computing with empathy and compassion.
169	Better batteries. New antibiotics. Exposing government corruption.
170	Internet makes information free and everywhere, and we still go to school and get told what to learn. How does that make sense?
171	electric cars, rockets, solar, and home-energy storage. Wait...
172	Private, vocational and portfolio based secondary and higher level education.
173	Harness the WWW's billions of idle CPUs to create a global hypercomputer. Doing it right now: slideshare.net/CharityEngine/… #bigdata @elonmusk
174	implanted nanotechnology for health improvement and tracking diseases
175	Effective non-lethal stopping power.
176	human powered flight ?
177	Some sort of education-focused AI. Would do a better job than the current system and would dynamically "teach" according to necessity.
178	Exactly what I’m working on right now
179	californian desalination stations along the coast
180	efficient/cheap desalinization or highways (see youtube.com/watch?v=Ixgp9c…)
181	efficient/cheap desalinization or highways (see youtube.com/watch?v=Ixgp9c…)
182	reverse thousands of years of domestication and create wild and wholesome farms.
183	invest all into templeos.org and see what happens
184	planting grass and trees on the roofs in major cities.
185	mine the first asteroid. Maybe carve my initials on it #sharkswithlaserbeamsftw
186	electric cars and alternative energy sources, wait...
187	2 chicks at the same time pic.twitter.com/Pr7gb9OBTW
188	Lunar Solar Power Hub bit.ly/1Fr2N9J
189	making zoning law, food policy, and the inclusion of flame retardants in furniture into high button issues.
190	make EXTREMELY convincing fake meat by understanding the properties of proteins on molecular level (impossiblefoods.com r doing it)
191	actual federated web services w/ local data storage, mobile hardware platform that doesn't suck, deprecate every Windows box, mojitos
192	refine phage therapy development into a repeatable/scalable process to replace our failing antibiotics
193	faking a creditable extraterrestrial threat?
194	1) Scalable empathy on a planet of billions (probably ties into reimagining religion/community) 2) Food distribution. 3) Higher Ed
195	bringing about post-scarcity.
196	try to get a light hour long w/female leads on abc
197	invent a way to build apartments buildings above current buildings with a gap in between for sunlight.
198	a faster toaster.
199	invent cats, but with dog brains...would totally hire Craig Venter
200	fix nutritional science
201	Free internet for everyone, and provide transportation and telecommuting options to rural areas and third world countries.
202	Nano-capacitors charged via transdermal RF power (1" away). Like wireless Qi for batteries, but smaller.
203	#spacebasedsolarpower #volcanicgeothermal & @QuantumTrains #ET3 network across the globe
204	..and retool programming to line up with our subconscious mental metaphors rather than the machine's. (Musks are allowed two!)
205	terraforming, but for earth
206	I am working on eliminating extremism and using AI/BE to increase overall level of "good" in the world
207	Try to create better technologies to deal with chronic illnesses such as asthma and diabetes
208	I don't have his capital but I'm going to transform education anyways ;) #humilityisoverrated
209	i would set up the most kick ass crafting studio
210	restoring the monarchy. I want to be a Duke, or Earl.
211	Wireless brain-controlled consumer electronics via brain-computer interface tech
212	Virtual Reality, but not for gaming. Build as platform to combat/alleviate social anxiety, isolation, depression, etc.
213	new education system that allows anyone to learn anything at anytime and anywhere
214	1. Turn corn into a perennial crop. 2. Develop thorium power 3. Create working bacteriophage therapies.
215	build high rise parking garage, office, hotel, mall at west Oakland Bart, helicopter taxi service to the airports
216	I'd build a model city from scratch, and name it Hubris.
217	commercial out-of-atmosphere flights! air travel today is too slow, expensive, crowded and old…
218	Robotic agriculture - ideally floating on the oceans, following the sun and rain as needed.
219	curing ALL 3,500 monogenic diseases globally, not just in North America and EU
220	universal psychedelic "literacy"
221	Privatized secondary-level education with a focus on skills and spending >50% of classroom time on where each student excels
222	Tesla. With that kind of capital, that would be the most delicious industry to disrupt, nearly impossible to do without capital
223	ok fine here's mine: Dam the Golden Gate, infill half the bay, make SF into the megalopolis its destined to be.
224	Alternate reality game platform that bootstraps new societal frameworks.
225	Critical thinking curriculum for children.
226	Scalable collective decision-making platform.
227	poverty alleviation because it's an easier problem (ie I'm not musk) we just need will, capital & focus to address dramatically
228	I believe i'd try making something like Google Glass, but better, cheaper and ready for the masses.
229	generalized artificial intelligence. robotic and virtual substrates. consumer robotics and consumer friendly AI initially
230	Nuclear Fusion Research
231	Desalination
232	Space elevator
233	Micro power generation. (community power in hands of the community or individual). Disrupt the grid.
234	rebuild Sutro Bath, build a subway under Geary, build hi rises along ocean ave. #stephengirard http://t.co/bQj8IeuBM4
235	would invest time and capital to try to solve the only problem that could made someone a trillionaire: disrupting oil
236	consumer level biomechanics.
237	Free Air Carbon Capture and Removal. Renewable Energy alone won't save us from the devastating climate change related damage
238	collecting data to train machine learning algorithms for medical diagnosis, to replace doctors
239	better burgers
240	Utopia
241	brain research, neuroscience connected with computer science: to build up the next gen user experiences (and patents)
242	consultation on disruption
243	Water pipeline to Calif! More important than moon travel.
244	Easy: continuous health monitoring.
245	becoming batman
246	a research, development and design laboratory.
247	Supercapacitors
248	reinventing faberge eggs.
249	fixing the life insurance market
250	a system of smart grid roads that can ultimately control vehicles
251	laser based point to point named data networking
252	I'd do something like @Tidepool_org an open data platform and apps for type 1 diabetes. Needs years and $$$ to have an impact on that
253	develop a network of cities which have stronger ties with one another than with their host states and use these relationships as levers
254	Thiel is funding anti-aging R&D but Musk is against it. I'm with Thiel: I think we can & should build rejuvenation tech.
255	open source google search/ai clone, bit-torrent/coin style w/ easy plugins for tweaking algos/filters/easter eggs
256	and not so audacious; but I'd also start a lottery with an average return of 100% which pays itself off of interest until payout date.
257	Rejuvenation/Regeneration tank technology. Turn 80, Get In The Tank. Come out 12mo later, 18yo body, clean neurons.
258	explore what else besides coding can be bootcamped
259	I'd settle for self-healing meniscus but that's just a start
260	self-repairing knees
261	I would make a dating site/thing that would actually work (hire some fucking game theory ppl or sumthin shit) even if it didn't make $
262	Invent self-replicating machines
263	nationwide network of practical science labs for middle & high schoolers. > critical thinkers = people to disrupt religion, tech, etc.
264	AI.
265	Tunneling. Should be cheaper and more pervasive. Transport, infrastructure, etc.
266	Bird-like flight for individual humans. For the beauty of it.
267	Push through decision market betas as per overcomingbias.com/2008/04/if-i-h…, possibly instantiate globally. Not my actual biggest, but one of them
268	on that basis my brainstorm would be looking again at very fast intercontinental travel... We are getting slower that must be beatable
269	materials science - Graphene et. al
270	Cancer. It's not the best one-liner but it's what I'd actually work on. I have a fairly specific idea where I'd start, but I might have to spend the first year just on educating myself and building a team.
271	Take a post-transubstantiation eucharist waver, extract Jesus' DNA and either clone him or produce a genetic therapy that gives one the powers of a God.
272	What I'm already working on: teaching people to read other people's computer programs. The money would save me the trouble of finding funding down the road. And allow me to fund competitors.
273	Get humans to stop treating other animals like they're ours to use. I'd probably stop working and devote myself to activism and learning about activism. The learning step is more important, but being actively involved (more than I am now) is important for learning. Other things I'd do to start with: funding www.animalcharityevaluators.org (where my spouse works) to do more research, funding some direct work going on now (including directactioneverywhere.com and ACE's recommendations).
274	I'd start a research lab to better understand the human gut microbiome, explore ways of manipulating it and the effects on our health. I'd hire the top 20 researchers in that field for the lab. The goal would be to create products and/or services based on the lab's findings.
275	I'd also buy a small bank and try to disrupt the financial market from that angle. Basically similar intentions as PayPal but attacking this from the other end. PayPal may have been a financial success for its founders, it failed in so far as we still depend on banks and dealing with them is still a frustrating experience.
276	I'd buy the world a Coke.
277	Thorium reactors
278	My first thought would be to create a media empire to displace the white male supremacist propaganda that exists today. Not sure if he has quite enough money though. Another thing would be to create a universal system for mental health that would provide free therapy based on need. I certainly wouldn't be spending money on rockets and other such self indulgences, however this is probably simply a result of the rich person bias I'm referring to above. Of COURSE that's the first thing they'd think of because to them social injustice doesn't exist.
279	1) Build an efficient (solar / lion?) transport ship, take out a huge thunk of C02 emmissions. As a side benefit gain a chokehold on the global economy. Maybe start with trains. I have no idea whether the physics works out. 2) Desalinization / water treatment. 3) Food production.
280	Massive, global scale pranks
281	With capital, brain sciences, more RE: human networks, and battery storage is where I'd deploy my resources to.
282	Hasten economic change via robotics. The disruption is coming, but the longer it takes the worse it could be. Put millions out of work by researching and lobbying for robotic transport, to compete with/complement Amazon and Google (goodbye truckers and warehousers) and food service (goodbye burger makers and servers and short order cooks) and maybe even home medical care. The result will hopefully be a new system and/or guaranteed basic income. Alternately, take the opposite approach - disrupt education, make a working alternative for all. A company that pursues underemployed people everywhere and educates them? Either way, you're looking at trying to free up millions of more minds (economically, socially) to pursue all of the problems everyone else is talking about.
283	Globally-deployable nuclear anti-weapon.
284	Replace monopoly of fossil fuels starting with methonal production world wide from organic waste of all kinds, and promote population control
285	Non pathological psychiatric care. Basically a way of doing psychiatry that doesn't tell people that they are sick in order to treat them. Most people are just unusual.
286	OK, I think I gotta good one. A better university. Buy up land somewhere, build a nice small campus. Fund interesting thinkers who don't fit into the academic mainstream from people like you to Taleb, Yudkosky, etc. Bring them all into one place, then let them continue their independent work. Let students pay to go there, but no fixed classes -- the thinkers there shouldn't be forced to spoonfeed lazy young minds. Just open invitation talks and dinners. End goal is to bootstrap a community of the most interesting and original thinkers.