My name is Michael Marcus, and I’m one half of the Hamtramck Idea Men; you might already know me as the inventor of the game, Sudoku: Tactics, or the editor of the popular anthology comic book IF-X. Right now, the biggest project on my plate is SMACC, Southern Michigan’s Arts and Creativity Conference, the goal of which is to develop collaboration amongst the arts–since nobody is helping out the arts industry, it’s up to us to do it ourselves. We’ve still got tables and performance slots available, so please consider signing up. We’re also in the need of some sort of sponsorship–if you can help, please contact me directly.
I plan on using this place as a place to scribble more general thoughts until they’re refined to the level of my $1 Ideas, ideas that have been thought through enough that they’re worth selling. I’ve got thousands of them, no two alike, all worth developing in one sense or another, whether they’re inventions, story concepts, or other types of innovations. Some of them are also TOO IMPORTANT to wait to be bought, too. For example, a partial solution to the problems within the automotive industry:
If you’ve taken the time to understand the electric motor, you know that its process of converting electrical energy into motion is very similar to a turbine’s method of turning motion into electrical energy. Now, Obama and many on the left are concerned with building America’s energy infrastructure. All a smart auto manufacturer has to do is switch some of its processes from manufacturing cars to manufacturing wind turbines of various sorts, and they solve several problems at once:
- The manufacturer now has access to “green economy” grants and other funds without seeking bailouts.
- New manufacturing jobs can replace old, lost ones.
- Since these jobs are not in auto manufacturing, the UAW has nothing to try enforce, wage-wise, on the new workforce.
It isn’t the first time we changed our country’s infrastructure to meet new demands–look at what we did back in World War II, when the crisis of war required us to redesign our factories. With this crisis, we need to do it again.
Tell me what *you* think.
–Michael