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• (Still being drafted.) Dear Scotland, This letter covers SHELVED technology that raises standards of living and creates jobs. The mainstream has ignored some of these systems for decades. Food and Farming: Hydroponics. Aquaponics. Solar dehydration. Rapid growth crops. Low budget vertical farms. Consumer funded food safety labs. Grassroots Finance: Localized crowdfunding. Specialized crowdfunding. Crowdfunding Radio. Crowdfinancing Tuition. Open Source Monetization. Donation Apps. Water Technology: Atmospheric Water Generators. Lifesaver bottles. Lifestraws. Ozone Machines. Portable Water Disinfection Kits. Pollution Clearing Technology: Open Source Tesla Cars. Archimedes Wind Turbines. Maglev Vertical Axis Wind Turbines. Innovative Waste Disposal. Industrial Hemp and Bamboo. Crowdsolving Platforms: Plan for a Crowdsolving Website Release the New Technology! Five benefits: 1) Creation of jobs at all levels of the economy. 2) Increase in standard of living for Scottish end users. 3) Increase in standard of living for overseas buyers. 4) Creation of foreign markets, as countries rush to use this newly publicized technology. 5) Creation of a knowledge economy, where pioneers consult and educate JOB CREATION I'm a researcher in pragmatic future technology. I crammed 30 ultralight businesses into one letter. Ignored ideas with the potential to decrease five major social tensions. 1) Famine 2) Malnutrition 3) Water scarcity 4) Financial inequality 5) Pollution. There's Plenty of Water in Scotland Right, but the country that becomes a world leader in water technology will create new markets in the billions of households that don't have a stable water supply. Water cleaning units start from 5 dollars. Scotland has water, but nutrition, finance, food supplies and pollution are still way below their potential. Is this futuristic half baked garbage? No. This letter only covers technology that's on sale now. Some of these ideas have been screaming their lungs out for decades. 1. Food Close to 50 per cent of all food grown does not make it to the plate. Modern supplies are often GMO and/or riddled with toxins. Farming is centralized and inefficient. Storage and distribution are a clusterf>>k. What percentage of humans eat healthy and natural food? What happens to the first country to start a natural food revolution? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_waste http://www.tristramstuart.co.uk/ http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/studies-show-gmos-in-majority-of-us-processed-foods-58-percent-of-americans-unaware-of-issue-104510549.html http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/06/01/dirty.dozen.produce.pesticide/ http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/mb060e/mb060e00.pdf http://www.cias.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/growing-demand.pdf Businesses that Solve Food Supply Problems Solar Dehydration Rapid Growth Crops Low Budget Vertical Farms Hydroponics Aquaponics Consumer Funded Food Safety Labs. Food Jobs in 5 Years - Graduates of the future will help market stalls reduce wasted food by selling solar dehydrator units, or offering a pay per kilo dehydration service. - Demand for intelligent preservation, distribution and storage will increase. - Modern farming consultants will help apartment owners and corporations set up indoor or rooftop gardens. - Universities will become havens for organic agricultural experiments. - Nightschools will teach square foot gardening and other space intensive techniques. - Aquaponics will dramatically increase yields in unfarmable spaces. - Rapid growth crops such as Alfalfa, which grows from seed to edible sprout in a weekend, may enjoy a resurgence.  - Consumer funded food safety labs will take food oversight from the hands of pay-per-result auditors and overworked government labs. Robocop GMO Agrihell VS Lord Of The Rings Farming If these businesses aren't set up, Earth's agriculture will end up a science fiction nightmare.   http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_dehydrator http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roof_garden http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1935 http://www.worldhungerteam.com/en/tactics/food-production/rapid-growth-crops.html http://squarefootgardening.org/ http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jul/03/kate-humble-aquaponics-answer-food-crisis http://www.consumerlab.com/ http://theaquaponicsource.com/2011/04/25/12-ways-aquaponics-differs-from-hydroponics/   One business mentioned here could be a lifetime's work for the right pioneer. Beetlejuice: The Mainstream Media is Pushing Half Baked Solutions Is eating insects the best fix for world hunger? In Spring 2014, a British prize fund endorsed *eating grasshoppers* as a viable fix for world hunger. Meanwhile, half a dozen workable solutions to food supply problems are ignored. The MSM spent 20 years pushing GMO on the public. We rejected it. Are they going to do the same with beetles and mealworms? If alternative technologies are not set up, expect more of the same from the media. Grassroots Economic Solutions Financial trends which could reorient the next decade are crashing into the mainstream. Businesses that Solve Poverty Localized Crowdfunding. Specialized Crowdfunding Crowdfunding Radio Crowdfinancing Tuition. Open Source Monetization. Videos Localized Crowdfunding. Patronicity, Detroit. Finance Jobs: - Grassroots financiers of the future will brainstorm new revenue streams. - Independent crowdfunding schools will teach forgotten entrepreneurial skills. - Crowdfunding radio will provide the crucial link between funding portals, innovators and the wider public. - Localized, walk in crowdfunding startups will regenerate towns and cities. - Specialized crowdfunding websites will create huge niche markets. - Niche crowdfunding is already huge, Honeyfund has already generated over 100 million dollars worth of revenue just for funding Honeymoons. http://www.crowdclan.com/niche-crowdfunding-platforms/ http://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2013/03/12380-20-niche-crowdfunding-sites/ http://dailycrowdsource.com/crowdsourcing/company-reviews/1033-five-crowdfunding-platforms-for-niche-audiences http://www.inc.com/francesca-fenzi/surprising-crowd-funding-niches.html Waiting For The Sky To Rain Gold It's a scrappy, stupid plan. But is there a plan B? Where will the financial scene be in two years? Still waiting for BRICS to work through their bureaucratic swamp? Waiting for politicians to wise up? Waiting for an economic saviour is like waiting for the sky to rain gold. Don't Move a Muscle Til Society Chips In If anything has inspired you so far, you could think about crowdfunding some startup capital. Don't take out painful bank loans to pay for these businesses. What About People Trying To Scrape By? You don't need a working prototype to start crowdfunding. You can write. Example: An article on "Pollution Free Technology" or "Agriculture of the Future" could be funded for couple of hundred bucks. I feel like a conman presenting scrappy solutions. But what else is there? If you see a better plan, send it to me. I'll promote that. Pinning your hopes on grassroots finance and new technology is crazy. Pinning your hopes on governments, politicians and banks is bats**t insane. I'll take crazy over bats**t stupid any day. -A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. General George S Patton Do we want to live as debt slaves for another 50 years? http://www.shareable.net/blog/crowdfunding-goes-hyper-local http://digitaltransactions.net/news/story/A-Crowdfunding-Niche-Posts-_1_5-Million-in-Daily-Volume-for-PSP-WePay http://www.crowdclan.com/niche-crowdfunding-platforms/ http://www.crowdfundingradiolive.com/ Businesses that Solve Water Scarcity Atmospheric Water Generators Lifesaver bottles. Lifestraws. Ozone Machines Portable Water Disinfection Kits. -Atmospheric water generators (1000USD+) can provide 25 liters of water from the air. AWG's can provide 12 liters even in dry climates. Australia and the Arab world have not yet heard of this technology. - Lifesaver bottles (150USD) can provide liters of water per day. - The Lifestraw (25USD) can filter dirty water for a year. -Ozone, SSKI iodine and portable chlorine dioxide can also help disinfect water for pennies per liter. - Fog collectors can provide up to 400 liters of water per day in mountain locations. http://time.com/75612/atmospheric-water-generator-watergen/ http://www.lifesaversystems.com/ http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LifeStraw http://www.fogquest.org/ http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_iodide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone#Industry Scotland doesn't need this technology urgently, but it can become a leader in water technology consulting. Businesses that Solve Pollution Open Source Tesla Cars Archimedes Wind Turbines Maglev Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Innovative Waste Disposal Industrial Hemp Industrial Bamboo - Graduates of the future will set up decentralized electricity systems. -They will design innovative funding models to help homeowners fund wind turbines. -They'll refine Maglev VAWTs, and make DVD's and workshops teaching people how to home produce turbines. -They will join the open source electric car industry, and set up auxiliary firms producing Tesla accessories. - They'll resurrect industrial hemp - They'll make the bamboo industry explode. http://hackaday.com/2008/09/28/diy-vertical-axis-wind-turbine/ http://www.instructables.com/id/Building-a-Vertical-Axis-Wind-Turbine-VAWT-/ http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp#Uses http://www.guaduabamboo.com/uses-of-bamboo/ http://qz.com/109268/hemp-is-used-in-over-25000-products-now-including-bmws/ http://www.scottishbamboo.com/ Clockwork Orange Weather If an effort isn't made to solve these issues, extreme weather and bureaucratic hyper-regulation may continue well into the 21st century. 1) The biosphere is poisoned. 2) We may have time to sort it out.   Armageddon has been postponed again and again due to poor ticket sales. If there is an environmental problem, you can be sure of two things. 1) Someone has already solved it. 2) The solution is not being covered in the press. Sleep well :) Will Releasing A New Wave Of Technology Cause a Population Explosion? As Harvard studies have proven, when standards of living rise, birth rates stabilize. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic-economic_paradox Get a ruler and a sheet of paper: 1. On the left column, paste a table of standards of living. 2. On the right, paste a table of birth rates. 3. Draw lines linking each country to it's counterpart in the other column: Monaco to Monaco, Ecuador to Ecuador, Chad to Chad. What happens? The lines are steep. A high standard of living means a low birthrate, and vice versa. The more this technology spreads, the more birthrates will stablize naturally. Malthus was wrong.   Advertising is Dying Buy One Give One http://mashable.com/2010/11/07/buy-one-give-one/ http://www.newyorker.com/currency-tag/beyond-buy-one-give-one-retail http://shopwithmeaning.org/buy-one-give-one-companies/ https://www.b1g1.com/buy1give1/ The buy one give one model solves two problems: i) People are tired of advertising, ii) People are tired of watching their money going to corporate monsters. Billboards and shop fronts will be different. No more bleach teeth smiles: Buy One Give One Future One Vitamin C packet to Canada for every packet sold today! One vegetable curry in India for every Caesar salad! One laptop donated to local schools for every 10 models sold. One apple to the homeless for every cider sold. It doesn't cost much to beta test these concepts. Cynics will hop the bandwagon cos sharing boosts sales. Who cares? With enough effort, sharing will be meshed into the fabric of our economy.   Solution Supermarkets These ideas boil down to one hypothetical supermarket. Cram all of the above technologies under one roof. One day soon, I want to be able to walk into a Hempcrete warehouse and find aisles full of solutions. Water Lifesaver bottles, Lifestraws, and Iodine purification kits, portable chlorine dioxide, ozone machines, charcoal filters and ultraviolet water treatment pens. Agriculture: 100 dollar vertical farm kits. Modular solar dehydration kits, non-GMO rapid growth seed kits. Sprout farms. Nutrition: No fillers, no bulk bottles. Individually wrapped sachets of high quality minerals and vitamins. Buy one or 100 in a box. Sell them in a market stall. Finance: Crowdfunding Consultants. Crowdfunding Classes. Grassroots financial think tanks. Regional meetups. Community: A cafe with acoustic music. Meet other changemakers. Grassroots Knowledge Market: A room full of freelance advisors and consultants. Wait, how do I sell this stuff? What are the licensing laws in my state? Can Alfalfa grow in subtropical villages? Rows of consultants charging per 15 minutes. Sit down, ask and learn. Freelancers pay 10 per cent of their takings to the house. The name? Call it...I don't know. Liberty-mart, Solution Supermarket, Fat Freddies Freedom Emporium. Call it anything. Crowdsolving The Future There's no way one scrappy letter can solve all of Scotland's problems. But 5 million minds can think through a lot of obstacles if they have the right platform. Wikiroots/http://Crowdsolving.org is a hypothetical website that could be adapted to any country: Nigeria, Indonesia, Scotland, or the entire Earth. - Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. Lao Tzu Wikiroots/Crowdsolving. How could Wiki communities crowdsolve major world problems as quickly as possible? Aim: Provide a region by region platform for crowdsolving major world problems. Focus 1. Wikipedia documents our world precisely. 2. WikiHow shows us an active exit route to many problems. 3. Wikiroots would focus *only* on six major questions: World: 1. How could world hunger be solved? 2. How could world water supply problems be solved? 3. How could world nutrition problems be alleviated? 4. How could world financial inequality be solved? 5. How could world pollution be solved? 6. How does development impact population growth? Regional: 1. How could Scotland's food problems be solved? 2. How could Scotland's water problems be solved? 3. How could Scotland's nutrition problems be alleviated? 4. How could Scottish financial inequality be solved? 5. How could Scotland's pollution be solved? 6. How does development impact population growth? Business to Business 1. How could Scotland help other countries solve their food problems? 2. How could Scotland help outher countries solve their water problems? Solve a problem, create a job. 10,000 Subquestions These six major questions branch out into countless subquestions. * Example: Water in Nigeria. How can Nigeria's water pollution issues be solved? ===> How can Bilharzia in Northern Nigeria best be eradicated? ===> What are the best pharmaceutical/nutritional agents for dealing with Bilharzia? ===> Northern Nigeria has a deficit of how many liters of clean water per day? ===> What is the approximate cost in USD of providing water purifying devices to Northern Nigeria? ===> Challenge: Crowdwrite an active guide to local problems? Random questioners log on and click through to their specific problem in their region. 1) An entrepreneur wants to bring water technology to Dubai. 2) A family wants a back garden vertical farm in Siberia. 3) A student wants to stimulate a weak economy in a Southern Taiwanese town. * These questions could be answered in multiple languages. The final document may only be a few hundred pages per language. Focus/Reduce. It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses. William Arthur Ward * Is there a problem? Is there demand? Do we have the skills to solve it? * Wikiroots/Wikicrowdsolve...whatever. Someone needs to set this up. *   Conclusion The new wave of food, water, nutrition, pollution solving technology will create millions of jobs worldwide, re-stimulate industry, and bring on a new Renaissance. The first countries to break the media blockade will become world leaders.   We can invoke a hurricane of change, without hurting even a butterfly or blade of grass. True change will need ten thousand Thomas Paines, and a million Paul Reveres. Tweet, photocopy, lecture and bullhorn through the information blackout. Or don't. *Shrug*   Best,   Frodonomics Contact: Twitter: @frodonomics POINTLESS EXTRA VERBIAGE: Random Points On Independence. What is true Economic Independence? Economic independence is a severing of regional ties with; big agriculture, big medicine, corporate finance, industrial polluting technology, and other entrenched interests. September the 18th is everything, and it is fk all. I look at September 18th the same way Alex Ferguson views the World Cup: a minor distraction from a bigger challenge. Pragmatic independence cannot be reached overnight. Like sawing through a steel rope, you're going to need multiple sessions. Economic Stability Money is a secondary manifestation of deeper flows. The base units of any economy are food, water, nutrition, a fresh environment, and a vibrant low altitude finance scene. God also has a say: Gold. Oil. Drugs. But.....the primordial factor in any economy is the human mind, and it's ability solve any human problem: Look at these solution based startups: Money: Kiva. Venmo. Square. Kickstarter. Pozible. Quirky. Angellist. Budge. Flattr. StartSomeGood Farming: Endless Food Systems. Aquaponics. Valcent. Rapid Growth Crops (Alfalfa, beansprouts etc) Nutrition: Dr Mercola. Dr Mark Sircus. Dr Richard Schulze. Dr Brownstein. David Wolfe. Forced Deregulation: Airbnb, Lyft Wind energy: Archimedies. Mag lev vertical axis wind turbines. Water: Lifestraws, Lifesaver bottles, SSKI, Zeolites, New filters. Media: Draft. Reddit. Digg. Shareable. Facebook. Twitter. That tag cloud might sort out 50 percent of Scotland's problems. There are billion dollar industries waiting to be created by the right pioneers. A lot of the technology in this letter has been ignored for decades. Achieving economic freedom is a ten year grind. It'll come from thousands of small scale projects working for fixed goals. Any time you solve a major problem, you create a job for someone. Scotland 2019. In five years time, I want to see aquaponics farms, low budget vertical farms, and other agricultural innovations giving jobs in disadvantaged areas. 500 local crowdfunding shops in every city.  New financial technology like Kickstarter, Dwolla, Kiva, Square and Venmo in mass use. Crowdfunding radio playing songs and showcasing 50 projects a day. Real strategic economic talk-radio, stirring up a buzz, instead of the insipid talking points peddled by the mainstream. Market stalls selling Magnesium oil, Lugol's Solution, Coq10 tablets, single packets of Vitamin C. Make single pills available, on the free market, for less than a pound. Vertical axis wind turbines, and classes how to build them for a hundred pounds. * * * * * Pub Lectures: Salvation? In this information wasteland, we desperately need classes in nightschools and pub gardens. Five quid a class: Twenty students. Example Classes: Basic Crowdfunding. How to take donations on a smartphone. Raising your first 200 pounds. Space intensive agriculture. Making a wind turbine for less than 200 quid. 10 Water Technologies for the Future. I could go on. Read the rest of the letter. The technology is there. The problem is the media silence. Eighty percent of this operation is stimulating the grassroots knowledge economy. I fumbled around in crowdfunding for 3 years till I found an online advisor that took the time to guide me through the first month. Anyone Can Lead a Crowdsolving Session When the Czech Republic broke peacefully from the Soviet Union, thousands of Russian language teachers in Prague had to become English teachers overnight. They were only two units in front of their students. The first wave of educators might be in a similar position. Research something for 20 hours, try and give a speech. Don't bluff when you don't know the answer, work with the other 40 people in the room and crowdsolve it. In the future: I want to see more crowdsolving sessions instead of one way passive lectures. If demand is created, the startups and angels will follow naturally. This is the ultralight era. Run a businesses from a smartphone and keep inventory in the living room. First Steps Summer 2014 This year: Anyone can take the first step from a backroom. You need a half decent idea, 10-20 hours research and a couple of mates. Why rent 200 pounds a week office space when you can meet in pubs and cafes? The Systems are Out There, The Information Isn't If ppl don't focus, Scotland 2015-2020 will go through the same fate as America 2009-2014. Six months of euphoria followed by five years of slow, teeth pulling heartbreak. How to Stave Off Disappointment and Fake Independence First, get the info out. Set up a pub lecture circuit. Talk to the Chinese and Indians about entrepreneurship. They never lost their skills. India is the biggest investor in the UK. Maybe ask the mosques and the churches to help communications and networking.  When anyone offers constructive suggestions, listen hard. When some prick in the corner starts sniping and picking holes, ask them: "OK, but what's your plan?" They'll melt away like snow in a rotten puddle. Free market solutions are not a utopian dream, they're common sense. Right now, talking, daydreaming strategizing is enough. Every idea starts as a vague twitch in the back of the mind. Political Autism Obama taught the world a hard lesson. Five years ago he was Jesus on a unicorn. Now what? Who's fault is it that he couldn't summon the political inertia to execute change in a nation of 350 million souls? One politician cannot transform a nation unless the electorate push forward on the ground. Modi in India is 100 days into his honeymoon period. How long has he got? Earth needs less political stars, and more small scale scale leaders. 100 sergeants are better than 5 generals. "Beware of Heroes" - Frank Herbert. Mind First Media, business and finance, in that order, are the real drivers of society. Politicians are the rubber stamp admins, spokespeople announcing the results of behind the scenes fighting. The grassroots media decides what really happens in any connected country. "Don't hate the media. Be the media." Jello Biafra. The lynchpin of Scottish independence is a grassroots release of the technology that has sat dormant for decades. Ignore the blabbermouths on the telly. They are just there to anesthetize real debate with hypnotic soporific trash. Walk away, and create space with SME's, musicians, farmers and bloggers. If newspapers don't cover freedom technology, let them rot on the shelves.

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  as a leader in the uk and Britain building world class ships and Olympic athletes. instead of having Alex salmond as president and king with Rupert murdoch owning bbc Scotland and bt internet