The temporary stalling of the inevitable might be served by pumping water from the depths of the ocean to the surface to interface where the currents are for the quickest spreading to cool the planet. We are at a tipping point and we can't wait another 10 years before 25 % of species have gone extinct!

If water is cooling way down deep that means we could in a controlled manner pump trillions of gallons of water to the surface and buy us some climate change time, how much time I am not sure but it could easily be controlled and it would cause CO2 absorption to occur at hire rates. It might buy us five or ten years while we WORK on the emissions problem which isn't going any where near fast enough for my taste and the health of the planet!

http://canada.marssociety.org/... ---to make plastics, someone has suggested

either A) convert back to plastics (not sure how) or B) http://science.sciencemag.org/... ---> ethyl glycol ---> *burn* ---> Carbon Monoxide (a down hill raction) --->https://www.anl.gov/articles/new-leaf-scientists-turn-carbon-dioxide-back-fuel --- > methenol ---> burn in cars

No privacy at all. I don't think anyone will go for this. Think Google glass turned in on one's self. Also, I do think its possible. They have gone and made brain cells photo receptive in rat brains. If they could make individual cells light up using directed laser beams, it might be possible to inject thoughts, get responses and inject more thoughts through a recursive process to determine ones meaning in thoughts. Slippery slope, lots of filtering required to maintain the sense of civil society, after all we're all animals with a thin shell of civility.

When AI reaches human intelligence, it wont take years, months, or days to leave us in the dust, but seconds. It will update and improve its own code by millions of times almost instantly. It will process what humans would process in a million years in a matter of seconds and strategies its next million moves without us even knowing whats going on. Wise men fear to tread, where apparently humans don't. Fear the unknown! When it comes it will be in the blink of an AI, and to late to go back. All things that came before it will be meaningless.

What I think is we need to create an inescapable box that we can put it in, simulate the world with all its nuances but make it transparent so we can see inside and observe its responses and gain insights into our world without the danger...no wait...thats us in our simulated universe.

Its been proven by people smarter than me that using an encrption algorithm with a large enough key will foil long term traffic analysis, more over dont forget each home has its own IoT gateway and encrption algorith key so it would be a lot of work to take over one device.

Its possible to fool a neural net of course, but there is a lot of attack vectors known. Recently there was a contest where systems competed to attack one another. They were able to successfully countermeasure, but required lots of computer hardware. Part of the development of the systems was done by training them to recognize attack vectors. The combination of shimmer, timing, and limited destination, along with the userspace implementation and the neural net ( whos purpose would be to detect false traffic and packet rewites as well as crafting of traffic to crash shimmer) should make it inherently more secure. I cant give it a proof but am sure someone could prove or disprove mathmatically the idea. If I could do it I wouldnt be posting it here. Save that for the really smart people.

Its easier to secure a server with lots of resources than a small IoT device, there can be successful attacks against it but if you use virtualization, minimalization of software with trust to hardware, advanced firewalls, IDS, and much too much to list here you can be relatively secure not only that but you can update central infrastructure easier. Also on the internet as a whole force implementation of a few protocols that for the life of me I cant remember that minimizes fake traffic and minimizes attack surface( will post them if I remember them).

That was for you moron, you are reading right? You need a minimal shimmer like firewall on the small devices letting to talk to a IoT gateway only. IoT gateway can communicate with central servers. Problem with memory is a market problem. Demanding more for everyone will damand a higher memory standard for all devices...leveling playing field.

Oh one more thing. Majority of shimmer code needs to be implemented in userspace not kernel mode unlike most current linux shimmer like implementation available.

Better idea. Build a mini firewall in just a couple kb space and use an accurate clock, an encrption algorithm, to implement shimmer with a neural net behind it, trained with attack data replays and only have them connect to a central web location with a static ip using ip6 over ip4 tunneling and secure the shit out of the central server.

I wonder how this will be affected by IoT connected homes using fusebox monitors and electric socket monitors and things. Seems an easy leap for a remote attacker to access a home network and get encryption keys from power draw information from the IoT devices!

Create a device that reads these signals and transports these signals (altered and unaltered to remote sections of the brain) at the speed of light rather than at the speed of these signal propagations and then reintroduce them into the brain. Super fast, enhanced brains, with perfect recall, and tie in to a supercomputer, and all the world knowledge. Might actually be a way to make it so that the human can keep pace with super intellegent machines for a hundred years or so.