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User:Super Quantum immortal/Incremental space colonization

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Incremental space colonization Incremental space colonization and Antarctica colonization and ocean colonization etc...

If you think about it, isn't it strange that exactly 0% GDP is spend in any form of colonization?

In short:

Use remotely controlled robots from the comfort of your room, to build incrementally an outpost capable of accepting permanent colonists.

Start by sending fully functional remotely controlled robots. They will assemble more remotely controlled robots from sent in spare parts. Assemble a little remotely controlled industry and mining operations. When the remotely controlled robotic outpost is self sufficient, it will start building infrastructure for accepting humans. First humans will be send in a one way trip(80% cheaper), there only job will be to raise children, send in as frozen embryos. When the population reaches a couple of thousand, it will be capable to interbreed by it self. We would have finally established, a permanent human colony, at acceptable cost.

Antarctica and ocean colonization, can be done in a similar manner.

Relevent reading on Clanking replicator for the industrial part. A lot of things are transposable here.

Stage 1 - Assembly.

First mission contains some functioning remotely controllable robots( just robot arms?), they are used to set up a little industry in order to assemble more robots. The first missions will send all the spare parts needed to build other robots and what ever tools and photovoltaics are needed. Rudimentary maintenance can be done at this stage.

It will be extremely cheap, compared with sending humans right away. No atmosphere, no food, no living quarters, no recreation quarters, no sleep, no rest, no radiation shielding, no failsafes, no anything.

For cheapness, most robot arms(and a camera) are fixed. Some are mobile, there primary purpose is to move the fixed arms around depending on the work needs. And very few will even have there own earth antenna on, so that they can perform antenna reparation(if all antennas brake down then we have to resend an expensive mission from earth)

Human controllers work for 1-2 hours and rotate in shifts, this way outpost infrastructure remains at near 100% efficiency use (human efficiency deteriorates very fast after 1 hour, they will be required to give over 100%). Infrastructures will be used 24-7, never stops, never, expendable machines will be used to destruction.

Stage 2 - Industrialization.

Setting up of local little factories. 3D printers for various materials (metals, plastic, resins, etc) are by far the easiest to use. Little machine tools and raw materials are sent, setting up little assembly lines. A little foundry is landed carefully and raw metals are crash landed (cheaper, other raw materials are probably to fragile for this treatment).

For energy: At the beginning, concentrating mirrors for energy, photovoltaics are too complex for early production.

Electronics: Send germanium at first, use poor resolution photolithography (extremely expensive otherwise).

Recycling: Recycling factories will drastically reduce imports of raw materials. Because energy will be much cheaper then raw materials, recycling rates should near 100%.

Stage 3 - Mining.

Gradually replace imports of raw materials from earth with locally mined raw materials, by remotely controlled robot miners. Maybe keep importing certain very rarely used materials.

Stage 4 - Empty human colony building.

At some point the outpost becomes self sustained, requiring only remote controlled orders from earth. From there, we can build infrastructure that can support humans. Living quarters, recreation centres, etc.

Gradually build green houses. First lichen greenhouses, they can survive space vacuum and thrive in low atmospheric pressure( liquid water at 0.006 atm). We should breed edible lichens that can at least temporary survive in a vacuum, later use edible extremophile bacteria. Finally, algae, more complex plants in hydroponics. When we have atmosphere capable facilities, we send animals.

Stage 5 - First humans.

One way trip of a handful of colonists(Yes, they NEVER come back, 80% cheaper). They will not perform research, they will be real colonists, they will be the first Selenites. They don't breed with them selves, they receive sperm and embryos( that would be trashed?) from earth, until genetic diversity is enough.

We still need to avoid toxic materials in earlier stages for when the colonists will arrive. Firsts colonists job is to care for the children, only send there as frozen embryos and grown by the women there. All the early colonists needs are cared for by the remotely controlled robot arms until the colony totally brakes even for good.

problems(Latency): It will be important latency because of light speed limit. With the moon its 5 seconds(barely acceptable), with Venus/Mercury its around 8 minutes(sun its 8min), and with Mars 20-30minutes(for a one way signal). For Pluto, you don't want to know.

Since these huge latencies are imposed, the robots and equipment could be greatly simplified( everything is slowed down). Smaller antennas with lower bandwidth, slower motors, thinner structural elements, slower electronics, weaker photovoltaics. The whole thing could be made more cheaply and with lower mass.

Human controllers would be probably controlling 10-20-50 robots at the same time, probably with little pictograms reminding of what task the robot was supposed to be doing and a little film of the previous moves. Robots would be controlled like stop motion animation.

Work should be redesigned so that things can happen in parallel. On earth short event simulations could be performed with human operators, the instructions are send in block(series of ifs) and executed, the low intelligence computers of the automated outpost are performing the instructions until expected results exceeds a security margin.

We can build outposts everywhere simultaneously in the solar system. Construction on Pluto would be considerably slower then on the moon, the budget per year for the entire solar system should be reasonable.

And will need to be discussed at the UN.

Positives:

The moon will be the first to be colonized, because of the only 5 seconds lag. Once the lunar colony is important enough, it will be able to send equipment for setting up new colonies. It will be cheaper to launch them from the moons surface, then from earth. As the front of colonization will spread, it will make it easier to colonize further. Further colonies will be able to remotely control the further still outpost with lower lag, then if they were controlled from earth. With economies of scale, at some point it will be easy enough to just send humans right away.

With important infrastructure up there alredy build, costs of sending humans from earth's gravitational well will diminish dramatically, hopefully to reasonable levels. And i would like to go there, but i'll be to old until then :(.

Commercial development of rare materials could happen immediately (RH, He3). Robots could be sold or leased to humans on earth. Development of remotely controlled tourism. Low gravity experiments. Political benefits, in theory at least the nations of the world will cooperate.

Concretely

-- 1. implement a half arced computer simulation like warcraft 1. It will simulate, antarctic, ocean, and lunar colonization. Done with "stratagus". Can be done with very few people. Simple, in 2D, only images, lua programming language. -- 2. The first game will help recruit, in order to implement a beater game, like warcraft 2. Done with "stratagus" again. Beater art, etc... -- 3. Previous step increases recruitment further. Now we start a 3D game, like warcraft 3. Done with a variant of glest (probably megaglest). Need modeling in 3D and 3D animation, and editing XML files. -- 4. Now, we start programming a very realistic simulation. Almost as the real thing. Trials are done live on the Internet. Videos are uploaded of video sites, etc.... -- 5. We perform trials on earth. -- 6. Hopefully, we finally do the real thing. --

Some, not very well thought out, early ideas about the details.

game features (1-3):

Have a 5 second lag (it could be turned off, if its simply annoying). Try to have everything as close to real. Cost, accidents, industrial processes, politics, etc... This is not just a simple game, there's a serious purpose in it. It tries to demonstrate that the idea is doable today. All technology should be very close to what we have today. Only barely ahead. In other words, no fusion reactors, no alternative propulsion systems, no space time manipulations, no cryogenics, no intelligent robots, etc... Acceptable stuff would be, ionic propulsion, solar sails, solar mirrors, green houses, etc..

To make the game interesting, we could play with various opponents. The default, will be a colony under UN banner. The "interesting" game play would have, USA, EU, China, India. Possibility for lunar cold war, use of weapons( like normal RTS games). Possibility for declaration of independence from earth? Formation of lunar federation from the various competing colonies(with the player as president, like master of orion). Federation AND independence. Independence pacifically, or after devastating nuclear war with earth. The moon becomes imperial power by it self, competing with earth? (we can assume for the game that the gravity well of earth is economically impossible to overcome)

realistic simulation features (4)

use python as primary language, (faster coding, and with a 5 second latency, no one will notice). It should be possible to do a great deal of realism(latency).

Libraries:

python-ogre: 3D stuff

PyQT: GUI sruff

Features:

First version, will just be a robot that can move around. Pick up rocks.

Multiplayer, of course.

Later permit building of complicated mechanical parts.

relatively easy ability for the users to design there own stuff

Minimal terraformation (long term):

For the long term the colonists could apply minimal terraformation on there words. No need to make a planet or satellite as earth and walk around naked, if it can minimally improve working conditions its ok.

In practice, its most probable only this form of planetary engineering will ever be done. Because the worlds are barren to begging with for a reason, they simply can't have conditions much different then the ones they are in now. Any fully fledge terraformation would not last long (1000s of years maybe), and would require maintenance at considerable waist in resources.

Some examples of minimal improvements, the same logic can be applied with all aspects of terraformation.

At 0.006 atm is enough to have liquid water, then we could grow edible lichen outside. On building small atmospheres on small planetoids, we could mass produce heavy molecular gasses, for example SiF4 or SF6. For example, it seams feasible to terraform the moon with an atmosphere thick enough that could sustain liquid water(0.16 of gravity), so its important from the start not to trash the place with toxic wastes.

Why would we want to do minimal terraformation? We would be using cheaper survival equipment. Less radiation shielding, less pressurised suits. When accidents do happen, they are less catastrophic. With a minimal atmosphere you can get sound again. Minimal production of food outside. Temperature difference between day and night become less extream. Minimal flight capability.

We could setup magnetic fields around settlements, it would reduce radiation reaching the constructions, no need to have near 100% protection, the rest of the anti rad protection will come from normal shielding.

Minimal space mirrors can help in stabilizing the temperature. Again, no need to bring the average T to 25°C and +/-10°C variation. If instaid of -100 its now -90, its still an improvement. Thermal shock on materials will reduce. It would probably require to big investments to bring the T to earth conditions.

In the same token, biodomes don't need to offer a living habitat just like on earth. A minimal atmosphere is still an improvement over nothing at all. We could build biodomes like Russian dolls with gradually improving conditions, requiring gradually lighter survival equipment inside them. They could be additional to a minimal atmosphere. In parallel with biodomes, if you dig deep enough(gravity dependent), atmospheric pressure increases.

Interstellar colonization (very long term)

When we colonize the solar system enough (100s of billions?), it becomes economically possible to start building gargantuan interstellar colony ships, with basically today’s technology. The assumptions are very reasonable. The cost would be very important, for example 100trillion €, but for a population of several 100s billions, it will be acceptable. Of course any future technological break through will only enhance the probability or realisation of the strategy.

Once near by star systems are colonized, the existing relatively slow exchange of resources, could help in building even bigger (and faster) interstellar ships. Accelerating exchange of resources that would render possible even faster interstellar ships and faster galactic expansion. The process going in too a positive feed back loop, up to near the speed of light. With this speed it will still take 100.000s of years to simply travel the diameter of the galaxy.

For the very very long term, with a huge galactic population( albeit restricted by the speed of light), faster then light travel, if possible, will have higher probability to be discovered. Even if the faster then light technology demands really obscene levels of resources, or very special resources, like neutron star mater or a manufacturing process requiring a near by black whole.

Intergalactic colonization (very very long term)

Galaxies eject from time to time stars in to intergalactic space. The trick would be, to wait for a suitable star to be ejected, and colonize it. Then simply wait for the star to reach its destination. That would take a considerable amount of time, but doable. Its the easiest way of doing it, with basically current technology.

Alternatively, resupply material could be send at a travelling generation ship. That would require coordination through out the galaxy, and for millions of years. It becomes a considerable logistics problem, but technically doable, and much faster then the intergalactic star solution.

Faster then light travel technology, would be very welcomed of course. :D


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User:Super Quantum immortal/World P2P Internet

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P2P internet can be achieved by small increments

1. Wi-Fi stage - software. You load special software in your wifi capable router, the packets will travel through a chain of wifi routers in order to attain its final destination. It should be feasible to reach ... Portugal from Finland, by bouncing from router to router. At the very beginning, the first chains will connect to the internet through free wifi hot spots, and users donating some of there spare bandwidth. Initial quality will be terrible, but it will gradually build it self up.

People can have alredy some dissent access to the internet through donated bandwidth. But they can enjoy various services by the local network alone. We can have local Radio, mobile telephony, local TV, mirrored websites( especially the very big ones) and other stuff. From the normal internet we can get some relatively low bandwidth services, multicasting stuff (internet radio, TV), e-mail, etc....

Wifi radio on cars could transform highways to literal highways of information, by having packets bouncing from one moving car to the other.

Ionosphere bouncing as used in amateur radio could also help a bit in long distance transmitions. It will still be crap for long distances.

2. Wi-Fi stage - antenna upgrade. The little tiny winy and cheap default antenna wifi stuff come with are crap. Even a very small investment in a beater antenna increases the radius by an important factor.

3. Wi-Fi stage - Router upgrade. Today routers weren’t meant to be used this way

4. Optics. Optical communication( simple LED, then laser) can help in increasing bandwidth if there’s no more room on the frequencies. Its more expensive then the previous stages, but it now worth it, with this trick we avoid installing cables, it would be even more expensive doing that.

5. Fibre optics. Final stage. People connect to each other with fibre optics (when applicable). Bandwidth between routers increase explosively. Any Overhead delay by bouncing through routers can be cancelled, by establishing enough fibre optic connections between the routers. The number of fibber optics between routers can be arbitrary. Anything that is real time can have a special protocol with high priority of transition.

On long distances: If i'm correct about the economics of the internet. The most expensive part of the transition is the near the internautes, not the long distances. One possibility is that the public authorities nationalise or become unique clients and offer as a public good that part of the network. An other possibility, is that cities and countries start doing the same thing as in the local level, they heavily interconnect with there immediate neighbours.

Summary:

First just a software upgrade, then an antenna upgrade, then router upgrade, then optic communication upgrade(led, then laser), then direct fibber optics connections. Quality increases from very bad to adequate, working in parallel with normal internet, and gradually taking on at least some of the load.

Its problem:

Too few people are on it right now rendering it useless, and people don't join because its useless, the uselessness cycle need to be broken. Even with low % of people it could still work in a minimalist way.

Technical note: ipv6 will be handy here.

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User:Super Quantum immortal/Clone monarchy

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Clone monarchy The status of monarchy in modern states has pretty much bottomed down. In political debates, you'll never hear of arguments in favor for monarchy. But but but, because of modern technological developments, she is getting a chance once more. Succession can be decided, neither by heredity(hereditary monarchy) neither by elections(elective monarchy), but by cloning the current monarch. And there's a plausible evolution path to this form of government from representative democracy.

The flaws in democracies, its the excessive anarchy that develops. A way to mitigate that was the use of representative democracy. Among all the representative democracy systems, ironically, the ones that get less direct democracy function beater. With "less direct democracy" i mean things like referendums of course, but also direct elections, recalls, single member constituencies, majoritarian systems, etc.

They are many forms of monarchy, i'm talking about constitutional monarchy, in which the monarch has real powers(not like in most modern monarchies) but not absolute powers. The greatest flaws of normal monarchy, its that if you get an incompetent monarch, you are stuck with him. In other words, succession kill it. Elective monarchies don't really solve much, here we fall back close to a republic.

A clone monarchy inherits the positives of classic monarchy with out its flaws. The competence of the monarch may vary from generation to generation, but over all it will be consistent. As a constitutional monarchy with a parliament, the positives of democracy are preserved with out its flaws. Very importantly, trust in politicians is around ... 20%, so i think a clone monarchy could beet that relatively easily.

Ok, lets assume, that a clone monarchy is desirable, how do we get in too one? We still must make a choice for the first monarch of the dynasty. Things can evolved gradually. We can also choose consciously to gradually introduce a clone monarchy. We should start with a separation of powers system, in which the government acts like a temporary monarch, or the president in any system. It must be a post with a clear separation from parliament, so that any power increase isn't overwhelming the system. At this point people have alredy started cloning them selves. The clones of people that have exhibited competence while at the post have of course an advantage in any elections. Over generations( centuries?) you tend to get the same dynasty of clones in the same post(s?). This will perceived as a waste, and a first change would be to permit an arbitrary number of re-elections to the post. Gradually re-elections become a formality, de facto establishing an elective monarchy. After some time the re-elections are dropped too, establishing a formal clone monarchy. The transition is exponential, at the beginning change is very slow, the bulk of the change happens at the end.

A particular note on Switzerland and the European Union. These are multinational unions, the level of mutual mistrust is greater then in normal federation. In Switzerland the ministers of the government are in theory up for re-election. But in practice, because they are all afraid that "foreign" candidates are nothing more than secret agents of a foreign country. Current ministers tend to be re-elected to there post until they retire, in the hope that they will preserve there independence. Minister post reeletions are formalities, de facto the Swiss government is an elective oligarchy. The EU as half arsed federation, is not at the Swiss level yet, but the anomaly exist and is named "the democratic deficit". As things are going, the Swiss scenario is a very probable one. With all this i want to say, that democracy or democratic deficit on there own don't guarantee what the real world results will be. Switzerland and the EU are not bad places to live in, actually they are among the best places in the word to live in. And also, the examples show that the proposed evolution is not as implausible as some might think.

Of course, there's no reason to restrict the clone dynasty to just the monarch. Lower levels of government, the civil service, the courts, can be populated by clones of the monarch. Courts are supposed to interpret the laws in a consistent manner, cloning pretty much secures a lot of consistency. Of course there's no need that clones are present every where, they are after all reasons that nature doesn't like clones. And those clones at lower levels don't need to be all of the same dynasty. The clones at lower levels possibility, give an alternative way to the initial evolution of the clone monarchy. Lower levels get populated first, upper levels get gradually filled up to the top over several generations. The transition following an exponential change, very slow at the beginning, and the bulk of the change happening at the end. Additionally the clones at lower level can be adequately groomed for there position, for example in a federation, they will actually grow up in the states they will have to administer.

What do i do? I think that i'll try this last option. And do a memory transplant( postulated feasibility) on one of them. Gradually build up acceptance and trust (reminder: trust in politicians is at 20%) over generations by filling lower levels with clones. Do this in many countries simultaneously, my clones would grow up as natives. In the relatively short term, the area of interest will be the EU. As an added plus, in the EU non-native EU citizens are eligible to local elections.


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User:Super Quantum immortal/Organ farming

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1 intro

its born like this, missing the brain and part of the skull and scalp brainless baby pop out and full size (she is an actor!) your browser does not support the video tag, install

The limited availability of transplant tissue is a sever constraint on modern provision of health care. The "official" way of solving this, is with stem cell research. I'm not going in the details but its not a very bright idea. The other proposed idea is to bioengineer animals, so that we can receive there organs. This is a even worse idea, in the end, we will inherit there diseases, in my opinion this research should be banned. There is a beater solution.

There is a developmental condition, in which the fetus/baby, doesn't develop a brain. To be more precise, there's a varying portion of the brain steam, that part reminds you when its time to bread, regulate heart beats, temperature regulation, etc. And in short, that's it, all our transplant problems are solved, we grow and breed brainless humans, in order to harvest there organs and other uses.

Yes i did notice it sound horrible. I'll just point out, that this is a life and death mater, for YOU, YOUR family and YOUR friends. In my opinion, if you literally have no brain; not human rights; not even animal rights; you aren't entitle too.

2 Industry

This, is not a technological problem, the idea is trivial. Its a legal and industrial problem. For the legal part, you just change the law. For the industrial part, trying to be realistic. It will probably take around 5 years for all fluids and simple tissue transplants to meet demand(eggs(for cloning), blood, proteins, antibodies, insulin, etc). For full organs, it will probably take around a decade(tooths, hairs, hearts, livers, etc). And it will be cheap(hopefully). This is all about the logistics and building infrastructure. Stem cell research on the other hand will take, a long time, we will be dead before that. And it will most probably be expensive, and require very specialized people to work with it. The proposal, could have been done since some decades ago, from when ever artificial sustenance and transplant technology was advanced enough.

car taken apart

The source of first generation of brainless, could be donated from the what ever gets naturally born in hospitals. More realistically, it would probably be brain dead patients, anencephaly is almost totally extinguished because of prenatal diagnosis, and asking women to carry brainless babies would be to much psychologically. The brain dead women(possibly on men, but harder) are used to intensely carry more brainless, with donated sperm and eggs. We can't just breed them between them, genetic diversity will be too low, at least not until it reaches an appropriate population size. We can arrange that there offspring are brainless, at a genetic level, with appropriate teratogens, or with fetal surgery.

Current legal justification: Brain death for adults, so we can do what we want with them, they are dead. On fetus manipulation, abortion laws permits to kill them, so it should be passable to render them brain dead, an exotic form of abortion.

Expenses of comatose patients are quite high, they aren't transferable here. But these are not full humans, they are expendable equipment, if we lose some regularly, it doesn't mater, no need to be too aggressive in maintaining all of them no mater what, as with real humans(too expensive). Industrial quantities will cut cost down, because of economies of scale. No need to put them in beds, they will never wake up, further more because of sores they will have to be moved regularly every couple of hours. Permanent storage in some sort of appropriate sterile fluid, multiple brainless in a single casing, if something goes wrong we risk losing the whole casing. The weight is evenly dispersed so no need to move them. Bulk, feeding tubes, secretory tubes and ventilators, for more cost savings. Facilities very automated, unprecise(cheap) robots doing most of the hard work, something like 1 human personnel for 1000s of brainless, costs are cut down, with parallel increased death rates. No need to wait years and years for adult size. Natural growth is slowed down for brain development, here theres no brain. We give growth and sex hormones, in order to get adult size as fast as technically possible, a mater of some mounts.

Cloning is too expensive, it doesn't scale well on millions. If nothing fundamentally changes, it would be only for the very rich, or the very ill. The brainless population is kept diverse to accommodate the immune systems of the entire population. With this system, everybody, almost casually can get his transplant needs met.

3 Immunity

Keeping a very diverse population of brainless, mitigates the immunity problem. From there, we can do more intelligent immune system manipulations. For example, groups of brainless are grafted as a fetus with tissue from potential organ receivers. This way the immune system of the brainless recognizes the potential receivers as not being a threat, and doesn't attack it. So transplant receivers, can also receive the brainless immune system. Alternatively, receivers can receive part of the brainless thymus, it is charged with destroying maturing immune cells, that would attack the body it self, hence the immune cells of the receiver that recognize the transplant as a threat are eliminated. In those circumstances, immunity tests should be predone on everybody in advance, for case of emergencies. I'm sure they are other possibilities.

4 Surgery

stupid surgeon a robot surgeon

Surgery is deeply altered. Now, they try at all cost to save as much tissue as possible, on top of it, the lack of transplants often force them to harvest tissue from the patient. With the new system, priority would be given in saving the nerves, they heal not very well. Theres no need to dissect the patient for extra tissue, so the patient should recover faster. We could develop some standard amputations, systematically cutting more then strictly necessary, while saving the nerves for future transplant. This way surgeons training costs and errors go way down. Since the surgeons would tend to do, repetitive and uncreative surgeries. Potentially certain procedures could be done by robot surgeons, with an AI, not much smarter then what we have today. Replacements on the standard amputations, will be easier to program. At least the extraction and preparation of the transplants from the brainless. If the brainless dies, or the organ gets damaged, its not a big deal. The organs, could be robotically precarved, ready to receive the nerves of the patient. The purpose of the robot surgeons, is that the procedures are cheap, so that everybody can benefit from them, not for just an elite or for share holders pockets.

5 Psychology

With a little bit of plastic surgery, a brainless can be made to look like a sleeping person. There are potential special uses for this.

New forms of psychotherapy could become available. At least a certain category of serial killers and rapists, should find there happiness with the brainless, instead of doing there thing on people. Because we primarily need to fool naive neural circuits, in the limbic system, there's a good chance, that a good deal of interested individuals would find it a satisfactory substitute. In a more advanced form, we could imagine, a form of animatronics to increase realism. Runned, maybe with totally free access(commercial?), or with medical prescription.

More ludic, they could be used as a special form of sex doll, at home or at bordellos. Some form of sex therapy perhaps, or pure perversion. If we grow them and harvest there organs, i don't see why we should make that illegal.

6 Research

Students at university and schools, training surgeons and the ordinary public, could perform educational vivisections on them.

We could make experiments, that dr mengele would be jealous off. We could keep them on a table and do stuff to them. We could feed them with only junk food and sodas for 30 years, and compare it with a vegan diet. We could carry them around, left them for years at Chernobyl. Blast them in to outer space, for... all there lives. AIDS experimentation at will. You are a AIDS doubter? Just inject HIV in 100 brainless, wait some time, and you have your answer. In all cases, we would see what happens, just need to calibrate the experiments for the lack of a brain, or add tissue that behaves in a similar way.

Research priorities, will change considerably. Concentration on neurones, brain diseases, immune system, and seamless/faster cicatrization. Steam cells, or what ever new tricks we could think of, combined with the availability of brainless. More specifically, neurone transplants, have to be embryonairy, adult neurones are of little use.

7 third gender

these things look expensive artificial wombs

Pregnancy, is cumbersome, a potentially dangerous experience and other drawbacks. By simply using the brainless to carry to term our pregnancies, women can be liberated from this hindrance. This, is absolutely not, a trivial change, from evolution's point of view, our species would be composed now of 3 genders, so extensive reorganization will follow.

3 genders: 2 different types of males(men and women), and an unconscious female. The differences between men and women, where due to the difference in reproductive potential, now they suddenly are put at an equal footing. Our very long term evolution has 3 possibilities. Either the 2 genders simply merge. Either they are maintained with some modifications as different specialized worker casts, similarly with ants, termites and bees worker casts.

The last possibility, supposes, that we will be capable to efficiently force successful same gender pregnancies(men-men and women-women), from the evolutions point of view, our species would be hermaphroditic, with 2 deferent types of hermaphrodites, following some what differently 1 of the previous possibilities.

Because of the brainless, they are several interesting manipulations we could do:

7.1 Low level interventions

An other interest would be very invasive inspections of the fetus, while it develops. Stuff that we would never do on a pregnant woman. Things like systematic cell harvesting, to check for defects. Something like 24/7 monitoring, a small permanent hole, for sticking cameras and other tools. All in a way, that doesn't, compromise the fetus, at the expense of the brainless surrogate mother. Echography and other inspection technics, can't be used permanently, they have a low level toxicity.

On a more practical level, we could do several manipulations in order to increase efficiency. We could amputate all none vital organs, and maybe even some vital 1s(like the heart, replaced with pump), in order to redius food requirement. The brainless could be used at first for human pregnancies. After a certain standard quota, they are used to death for brainless reproduction, things like multiple simultaneous brainless pregnancies. If it dies while it was carrying several brainless fetuses, its not a big deal.

7.2 Bold interventions

mouse foetuses A. normal B. genetically engineered There brains were so big that they died, but still very promising mouse foetus with huge brain

We could artificially increase brain size of gestating fetuses, like with the mouse of the image. Brain size among other things is constrained by the fact that we have to get out of our mothers, here this is gone. Other problem, is excess heat production, we could implant artificial radiators or coolers, in the developing fetuses, to solve this issue. Of course, brain size alone isn't everything, you have to know what you are doing, or theres great risk of retardation.

We probably have the most useless babies of the entire animal kingdom. Our babies are basically premature, so that their brains can go out of there mothers at birth. We could try to leave them more in the brainless, so that they are more developed at delivery. They just eat, sleep and poop at the beginning anyway.

7.3 Explicit memory transplant

This section is a little bit too much science fiction, but the wild guesses are quite reasonable:

With transplant technology, we can make you last in a good condition, for quite sometime, even recover from some of the worse accidents. But in the end, our brains are not immortal, they would need repair too. The problem is that the brain is incredibly complex, even if we map it totally, we most probably will not be capable to repair it by implanting new neurons. As the embryo's brain develops, it folds and secret various signaling molecules in complex ways, everything ordering the neurones how to set them selves. If we attempt something similar on a adult brain, we would riddle it with holes, more likely the procedure will kill more neurones then new neurones that we will inject. Even if its possible, the prise will probably be extream, not transposable to the entire population. Even, if by some miracle, it is possible, its certain that our generation will not benefit from it.

So if we can't realistically get brain repairs, what can we do? Lets, look more carefully what we want, basically we are afraid of dying. This is something we can fix, more easily. Instead of trying to repair the entire brain, we can concentrate on preserving our explicit memories. If we transplant in a clone, only our explicit memories, after the transplant, we going to experience the events, as if we went in to surgery, and when we woke up, we are in our clone's body. Here we transplant explicit memories, not the experience, theres a difference. From evolutionary point of view, it may be superior to real immortality, since theres an element of regeneration.

More precisely, we don't really know where explicit memory is located, its somewhere above the ears, but its not pinpointed precisely enough. When it will be precisely pinpointed, the plan is, to extract it(and kill you in the process) and implant it in your clone, while he is a fetus. The plasticity of the fetal brain, should enable it, to make the correct connections to the transplant; furthermore, new neurones could invade and integrate the existing neural nets. After birth, as the child develops, it would be able to recall your life, but experiencing them, as if they was his memories. I don't think, that you can perceive this transition, as death; so we seceded in what we wanted to achieve, cheat our fear of death. A 70 year old's memories, in the brain of a 3 year old, thats scary science fiction. Of course the procedure can be made over several generations of clones, spanning centuries.

It could be, that the way the memory system is really setuped, isn't possible to successfully perform this operation. Embryonary brain transplants, are done successfully on animals and between different species of animals, for brain research, but i'm not aware of anything regarding explicit memories.

The brainless, are important here, because, you need eggs to perform the cloning and you don't need to find a surrogate mother, that will probably get her bely totally opened up, for hours of surgery.

8 General New possibilities

The sudden availability of transplants, turns on there heads, many longterm assumptions, about how to treat people. Some ideas:

Preemptive transplantations, of everything at +/-40 years old. We add what? 35 years to your life expectancy? We don't need to wait until you are literally dieing to find you a new heart. Not only you live longer and healthier, you can work for longer too and have a shorter retirement, for when your brain is too deteriorated. Of course, now, euthanasia has to be legalized, in theory we can make you last until the very last of your neurones is dead. Thats what? Some centuries? We can prepare you, to be easily openable. We take in to account that we will open you up frequently, in repetitive interventions, while keeping healing time brief. Something like a titanium sternum, with a special mechanism, that can be opened and closed in minutes, with a special key or something. Even after a heart intervention, you can be on your foots, in a mater of several days. Some sort of flexible abdominal zipper, a navel plug and other openings. We just need to cut open the skin, to reach the artificial opening. they could be used even for more benign checks. We could leave inside things like a small camera, an emergency small robotic arm, remotely controlled or an AI. Maybe, it's possible to fit them in fetuses(inside a brainless), they would heal beater, or grow around them. Or maybe, it would be possible to inject them, the wolverine way; maybe some kind of corrosive first, then some binding resin and then open surgery to attach the titanium part on the preimplanted bone rootings.

selective breeding results genetic engineering results(glofish)

On the long term, we can improve efficiency of the brainless by performing selective breeding on them, or genetically modify them. For faster results, we could radiate them to increase mutation rates.

For example, we could arrange, that they are brainless at a genetic level, not requiring further manipulation from us. We could arrange there immune types are more neutral, for example, we get all of them to be of the O blood group. Keep them very diverse, so that everybody can find organs very close to his immunity, thus requiring less invasive immune system manipulation, possibly no manipulation at all. We could breed a special 3° gender strand, exclusively for carrying babies, breed out, limbs, bones, with smaller vital organs, etc. The 3° gender could be bread to carry multiple pregnancies for cutting costs, to be big as a cow or huge as a wale, with proportional increase in risks.

AIDS can be treated with a transplanted immune system, that is genetically immune to aids. Harvested by a special breed of brainless. Similar solutions can be done with other diseases. Theres no really a need to know, what we are doing. The extremely dumb way, would be to take some 1000s of random brainless, infect them, and keep breeding with each other, the 1s that fair best. Of course, a little bit of intelligence will cut costs and increase speed.

Of course, immune cells, can be used for a 1 time injection, as an intelligent drug, for the time they are alive. Far more potent, then what 1 molecule could ever do. Being specially filtered, to select the 1s with the desired action. Breastfeeding is superior for psychological reasons, but we could setup an industrial human milk production. I suppose, if you have to chose, human milk, should be superior to cows milk, natural selection stick its nose in to it. For the very long term, we could imagine that natural selection, selects out women's breasts and adapt to milk from brainless; breasts are still a cancer hazard. Almost all organs are expendable. This way we can concentrate on heavily monitoring the brain and nerve system, for early treatment. Temporary emergency transplants on brainless. You have your leg cut off and your vitals are in a mess. Your leg is graphed on a brainless, while the surgeons try to save your life, you get your original leg back, when you stabilize. A variation, if the upper part of your leg is destroyed, the remaining leg is graphed on a brainless, you get grafted a new in between and your original lower part of your leg, at an other operation. People could freeze sufficient eggs/sperm and then get irreversibly sterilized, perfect birth control. Especially interesting for women. 80% 3° burn victim? No problem, we will peal a brainless, from just next to you in the operating table. You are a chronic alcoholic, no problem, we replace that rotten liver, so you can continue drinking. You eat too much candies? no problem, we'll replace all those rotten tooths, so that you can continue abusing sugar levels. We could use the brainless as a bio robot, by controlling by remote control there muscles. But it would probably be cheaper to just use monkeys.

9 Materialization

All this is very nice, but as you noticed already, the real difficulty is political. To put it bluntly, if you don't do anything to promote this in your jurisdiction. YOU, YOUR family and friends, and me, will suffer and die because of it.

Whats going to be the position of the pro-life movement? I think because of the size of the controversy, its in my best interest to not take any part in this discussion.


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User:Super Quantum immortal/Future of language

(fix the formating latter)

1.0 Intro
language evolution follow certain rules. The study of these rules, is usually done in order to study the past. Here however, we going to attempt to extrapolate in to the future.

2.0 Oral
(this is a very standard extrapolation, here for completeness)

Multiple languages, can only develop and get maintained in the long run, if theres a physical separation of some sort. This way there speakers don't hinder each other. When 2 languages meet, for various reasons, they either merge(creole) or 1 exterminates the other(English/Irish), resistance is futile. This is a consequence, of the not well known fact, that even for children learning languages is difficult. If they think they can, they will ignore all but 1 of the languages they are exposed too. In the other direction, if speakers of a single language get physically separated for enough time, they will evolve 2 distinct languages, Latin went that way. Its all about the physical separation of the speakers.

In the past, physical separation of languages was very effective. some centuries ago, most people could go as far as there own little foots could carry them, (thats not very far). In that environment a great multitude of languages is a natural consequence. In contrast, today there is modern travel, in a 20 hours flight you can do half way round the world. Modern communication technology, play a role in bringing people closer together.

How this applies to the future? Sure there's modern travel and communication technology. Modern travel, isn't effective enough, and it doesn't seem it will be in the near future, in order to induce major global language movements. Communication technologies are much more interesting, especially the plausible future planetary Internet, with 99,9% penetration and extremely high bandwidth, for very low prices, it will act almost as good as a teleportation device. You could work from anywhere on the planet, make friends anywhere on the planet, etc, they will be possibilities, that today aren't technically feasible. Of course if actual teleportation technology is invented :), it will be even beater. This new environment, contrast sharply with the recent past of "foots only". Several centuries of "supernet", will totally merge/exterminate world languages in to a single language, even in the most nationalistic and stubborn of nations. The only way to prevent this, is to severely throttle or simply ban the Internet. Not a realistic option at all, so this projection of global language merger/extermination is 100% certain. Its just a matter of centuries.

more in detail

English from a native speaker beautiful blue butterfly English today on the Internet incredibly ugly dog

Most probably, its going to be English skeleton and words harvested from a myriad other languages, ruffly proportional to there importance, but still theres going to be heavy influence from English. English will act as a troyan horse, it will leave behind a lot of words, but it will not be respected a lot as a language in the process. From English it self will prevail words with probability proportional to there use. For example the words "be" and "one", are 100% certain they will maintain them selves. In contrast more rarer used words, have higher probability they will get replaced with something else.

Word evolution speed, is inversely proportional to there use. Applied here, this means frequently used English words have the highest probability to survive the transition. "English" or nascent "international English", used on the Internet today is quite malformed and mashed up(:D), the chronic huge number of none native speakers of the transitional period, will inject a lot of words from there own languages. This will act as an accelerating word evolution speed effect, hence we use the word evolution speed theory. All this exuberant diversity will be cut down, as gradually, popular words impose them selves as the new standards over there native English counterpart, and even invading and displacing the old English word among native speakers them selves.

You and I have to love long long. It is I get to road to you cleared face.(this comes from Korea)

approximate time line

(language shift)

 * 1) Adults learn English at varying quality, for practical reason. If today, you don't understand English, you are practically over 50% illiterate. We are currently here.
 * 2) Children learn it, natively, for practical reasons(supernet). Divergences from standard English, depending on there first language. Local hybrids of English/native languages develop, official or not.
 * 3) Number of native bilinguals slowly rises. The various local English variants exchange intensely words among them selves, threw the "supernet", no special privileges for real English words.
 * 4) % of bilinguals very high, if you know your local variant of the nascent world language and less so, the official language, you can get away with it. Learned quality of native language degrade and invaded by words of the new language. Cost of learning aren't proportional to the benefits. First among some immigrants and later among some natives, the official language is lost.
 * 5) Unilinguals in the new language increase exponentially, slow death of official languages. Local variants standardize, synonyms and rare expressions are cut down.
 * 6) A true world language. Accents is the most important language differences in the word population. Other minor communication differences survive.

3.0 Writing
(I had to be hie when i thought of this)

A naive observer, would just conclude that the writing system will be the Latin alphabet with some sort of English grammar. From the above and past experiences of languages evolution, it seems reasonable enough. But....

3.1 complexity
However, we have to make some observations. Writing isn't very adapted to our brain. From our wild animal past, our brain is wired to consider as significant information, images. We have astonishing capabilities in image memorization and recall, much more then anything else. You can learn 1000s and 1000s of images, just by looking at them once, and still be able to recall them weeks later. Letters and words are considered not very significant by the brain, requiring greater effort in manipulation. Writing represent sounds in general, a simple 1D object. Even the division of words in phonems it self isn't natural, litle kids exibit dificulties with it. The brain prefer complexity and structure. Chinese use is slightly more natural for the brain encoding method, thats why theres resistance to alphabetize it.

An extream language example. Lets assume that you traveled to an alien civilization where letters were written as: " _____    ___    ___  ___      _____   ___"

They would look at you with disbelief. Why do you keep confusing "____  ____  ___ ___    _____ " and "____     ___   ___ ___   ______"? It's so simple.

Here the brain doesn't consider the "letter" as significant at all.

Visual mnemonics, exposes how important images are for the brain. It's a technique of translating information in to images and memorizing the images. At recall, the actual images are recalled, and then translated back in the original information. If done well, the results can be astonishing.

image alphabet for litle children

Classic writing aspect(black ink on white background, or what ever), is just due to technological constraints, on encoding information by hand on some surface. There are the purelly technical constraignts. In chinease, characters are angullar(日木齒月龜龠), there is no circle, because it was(is) difficult to draw circles on paper with a brush(no pen). Latin was writen on wax tablets with a stylus(Romans), and its the whay it is(AaBbCc :D). Indian languages are all curved(क ख ग घ ङ च), they were writen on leaves. Runic has only straights or diagonals(ᚠᚡᚢᚣᚤᚥᚦᚧ), it was writen on wood (because of the fibers of the wood). Even the printing press couldn't print totaly arbitrary shapes... you get the point. First writing systems where ideographic, simplified little drawings of the actual thing you wanted to say. Imagine how slow it would be if you actually had to draw images down by hand on some weird surface (on wood or what ever). Later, some of the characters where used for there sound in place of there original meaning. For example "A", its an upside down ox head, the legs of the "A" are the horns, originally meant just "ox", but later used for the sound of the word "ox" it self, in a now long forgotten language. Similarly, "E" is a man, the 2 upper lines are the arms, the bottom line is a leg, the other "leg" and head got lost in the evolution of the letter. "O" is an eye, etc....(latin evolved from greek, that evolved from phenician, that evolved from demotic, that evolved from ieroglyphs, that evolved from earlier styll pictograms). Litle kids today, learn there alphabet with images of stuff that begin with that letter. In the encients time it would have gone further, these images would actually be the alphabet.

3.2 uncompromising
Initially, ideograms where a compromise between writability(on wood or whatever, by hand) and lisibility (oups, i just noticed that one, meant readability, referring you to 2.0) of the character, later evolving from them an alphabet for lowering writing complexity further. However with modern technology, this 6000 year old compromise is no longer warranted. If a civilization that only has wood to write on is forced to have a writing system like this :"ᚠᚡᚢᚣᚤᚥᚦᚧ" and a civilization with brushes has a writing system like this :"日木齒月龜龠"; then the writing system of a civilization with computers should logicaly look like what? It will be ideographic of course, but this time, the ideograms can be extremely complicated(photos, drawings, paintings, diagrams, animations), for maximum lisibility and ease of learning. Classic writing produce a low dimension object, hard for the brain but easy on the hand; these ideograms are multi dimension objects (surface, colors, movement); easy on the brain and easy on the computer(fair division of labor :D). Ideogragrams where originally junked, because they where hard on the brain(simplified) and hard on the hand. Weeeell, strictly speaking, these are not "ideograms", lets call them word-images. If writing was invented today, it would be word-images, its more natural for the brain. Back then they only had ink, paper and there little hands. We have colors, animation and autocopy. Theres no need to fight with cryptic Chinese-like characters. Even beater, with modern technology, we could even avoid the need to standardize, every 1 could have his own caracter set.

(It would be nice if there was a standard for colored and animated fonts. We could sell it as a usefull feature for people with seeing disabilities and severe dyslexics. Maybe ask the Free Software Fondation?)

Hey, even if the idea is bullocks, it still nice for science fiction writers. Extraterestials or future humans, are always using some sort of alphabet( classic leaters), robot civilization are using binary and super advanced beings, simply use super complex alphabets.

a picture is worth a thousands words

...and writen english its crap anyway, its full of iregularities, 0 consistency.

3.3 general
If you want to express a simple concept, you just need to use a photo of this kind of object, with normal colors, little animations, 3D, etc.... For example, if you want to say "cat", you just use the image of a cat. If you want to express "running", you use an animation of a guy running. They would be real words, in the sense that they have to obey certain constraints, so that the readers can automatically link the meaning with the character, no mater what "fonts" are used. This automatic linking would be the same as the linking with normal text(per table, bellow). You don't have this kind of linking with images right now, you just describe an image, if you had reading experience you would automatically link a meaning. If you had an example right now, it would probably simply look strange, even if you can desifer it.

nice to meat you :)

say the colors of the words, don't read, do this as fast as possible; you automatically link the word with the string of characters.

More abstracts concepts, will require subtleties in order to convey meaning with just images, in the simplest possible way. We can steel ideas from many places.

A naive first candidate would be Chinese, however contrary to popular belief Chinese isn't really ideographic. Chinese is composed of 214 radicals, as they assemble they create the characters. Of all the characters: some 4% are pure pictographs.

examples:

Some 13% are logic compounds(this category is subjective) and the rest are homophone compounds. The pictographic characters are just simplified drawings of the meaning that we try to confer. Logic compounds, are several characters brought together in a single character, inferring a logical meaning.

examples:

Homophone compounds, use an homophone character or simply a caracter that rimes (Rebus), with an extra character to disambiguate the meaning. An example, homophones in English, "meat" character and "human" disambiguation character together, would mean "meet". An example, of rime in English, the caracter "plant"|"speach", something about a plant that rimes with speach, its peach. A real chinease caracter, "妒", meaning jealousy, 女 means woman (a sitting woman), it disambiguates the meaning for the second phonetic caracter 戶 ( door / family, household); so for the chinease, jealousy is a women caracteristic, wonder why they thought of that? I'm not going to tell you what 姦 means. Similarly, in hieroglyphs, theres a phonetic part, only with consonants(similar to Arabic), plus disambiguation symbols. Korean has a simple pnonetic writing system, and uses chinease caracters to disambiguate when nessecery, Japanease aparently is doing something similar. Because of the restricted number of disambiguation symbols, the compounds can get vague and eccentric (妒).

3.4 homophones are evil
Compounds trick, is used in many other ideographic systems. The logic compounds are nice, but the homophones are a problem, the oral language get mixed in, its not what we are looking for. A world writing system should be oral language neutral, if they are multiple concurrent oral languages. Even if there's only 1 world oral language, its still a problem. Oral languages tend to shift with time, rendering it unreadable centuries later. In modern Chinese, they are characters, where there ancient homophone compound has remained, but there oral pronunciation has shifted; to modern Chinese these character look just arbitrary. The weight of history prevent from properly updating the character, of course the issue is potentially eliminated with computers, a simple "replace with" in a text editor and problem solved in a fraction of a second. With pure logic compounds, characters should be much more robust with the passing of time. Homophones, create there own increase in complexity, it complicates rules, because the reader has to distinguish, if its a homophone or logic compound. They may permit simpler compounds but at the expense of the learning curve. It increases the learning curve for foreign learners, because they have to actually learn to speak the corresponding oral language. For an established world language this is a none issue, but it will be a hindrance during the transitional period and later the weight of history will block homophones from appearing. If you never saw a logic compound, you can potentially guess what it says, with a homophone, you just can't, this complicates learning. Besides, the use of very complex photos, should lower complexity enough to permit a pure ideographic system with out access compound complexity. Even if the world oral transition fails, the writing system transition, would still be possible. And of course, homophones are ugly, and its cheating anyway :).

3.5 ideas theft
Talent imitates, genius steals

 * The bulk of the difficulty, is to construct logical compounds, that convey the meaning the most easily possible. Like little IQ tests, but designed to be as easy as possible. The beater this is done, the easier would be learning to read it, the extreme would be reading right away with no teaching what so ever, even if its slow. Even if some compounds are clumsy, it still lowers learning difficulty, considerably, by being in the form of an easy visual mnemonic, in a very high degree logically related to the targeted meaning.
 * For initial setup, a good idea would be, surveys with children and adults, to determine the most obvious compounds. You show them tons and tons of compounds, and ask them what they try to say, just pick the overall bests.
 * In a more passive mode, we just show random films to a lot of people, and ask them to describe what happened. We trace them backwards, so that the desired intuitive description corresponds with the most popular original image/action.
 * Steal ideas from logic compounds of actual ideographic-like systems. For example: hieroglyphs, cuneiforms, Chinese, etc... Steal ideas from sign languages, UML, etc.... Steal ideas from political cartoons, caricatures, advertisements, etc.
 * Get inspired by what search engines spit out at image searches. Get inspired by the synonyms in a dictionary.
 * Take advantage of what ever is already world standard. Like numerals and other math symbols, pictographs, road signs, recycling sign, radioactive sign, biohazard sign, etc....
 * A phonetic alphabet will still be needed, but it will not be intended to be used to wright everything. Possibilities: just keep the Latin alphabet, use a compound alphabet of the most used alphabet in the world, reverse back to there original ideograms the Latin or compound alphabet and use that, some sort of cymatics pattern of the intended sound, bran new alphabet(unlikely). Custom phonetic characters, corresponding with the very rare words that have more or less universal beginning, with a compound character denoting sound. Maybe from new technology, some kind of fruit or wild animal, some sort of natural noise.
 * Steal Chinese punctuation. Traditionally they had no punctuation, thats 1 possibility. Todays punctuation is mainly bigger European punctuations and some differences in the way they are used. Important differences are the Chinese full stop ". " and Chinese quotation marks "「」". Finally, white spaces aren't used between characters.
 * No homophone compounds, we don't do compromises with quality :D.
 * Associate all characters with a relevant little video. Facilitates learning.
 * Special learning helpers. Sounds synchronized with animation, there a problem with collisions, 1 solution is software tracking your eye movements and activating only when you look at the character, for now(or just the beginning) you may simply want to use a pointer. Use of light polarity(special screen), for some extra information somehow, for example you wore sun glasses and you tilt your head for extra helper information, for example written in English what the character represents.
 * Mister potato head
 * The verb "is" can be implied.
 * A one to one correspondence with Chinese characters is a bad idea, this system is a language in its own right.
 * Pick specific variants of images, so that they facilitate reading somewhat, by being somewhat related with there nabobs. For example, similar, colors, shapes, species, people, etc.

3.6 more details

 * Simple concepts are trivial, like: colors, various objects, shapes, etc...
 * For actions, little rapid animations can be used. Like: ruining, flying, smiling, open, etc....
 * For compounds, keep simple but consistent rules, what people intuitively expect. An ant is an ant, not "mycocepurus smithii" or "nothomyrmecia macrops". But, a jeans is a jeans, not pants. Pants are just simple pants. 2 people doing something, means that something, not that particular people doing something. To redious possibility of error, we can use redondency. For example, 3 differen dogs means "dog", 3 times the same canish means "canish", 3 times the same ant means "the species of ant", etc... If we can't have 3 different images in a balaned way, we can use 2+2, for example: 3 european dragons means "european dragon", 3 chinease dragons mean "chinease dragon" and 2 european + 2 chinease dragons mean "dragon". Single images(1 canish, 1 ant ...), may be ambiguous to certain people, does this image means dog or canish? With the litle convention of 3 or 2+2 or what ever, we redious the possibility for mistakes, by unexpirienced readers.
 * A compromise is needed between the use of single images and compounds. Single images are more compact spatially, but if we have too many of them we will be overrun by 100.000s of images. However, because we are more adapted in memorizing images, we should be able to handle a bigger set of word-images, then the number of words in a normal language.
 * The constraints are different. Concepts that need many words or compound words can be compressed in 1 image. Certain simple words, may need to become compounds of images.
 * Use phonetics for names.
 * Historic personalities, famous for some act. Like Napoleon, or Sun tzu. In general, we have a prety advanced ability to spot tiny differences in human faces.
 * Dropping out certain details, in order to redious the possibility for error from the part of the reader. For example, the use of the wooden dolls for drawing in place of people. The cost to that, is that it gets harder to remeber the image.
 * The more there are images, the more abstract the concept should be. The implied information is what they all have in common. Example insect would be "1 ant, 1 beagle, 1 fly". If something abstract can be fitted in a single image, make sure, its obvious that theres something special here, and not just a simple description.
 * Things that are doing stuff that wheren't suposed to be doing, this would steal the attention of the reader. Example: mona lisa with a tatoo.
 * Probably, in most cases several images should be used. This way the consepts that have to be payed attention to are highlighted. The use of single images, should be restricted in special cases.
 * Alternatively, it could be structure like a question, with a white box. The meaning of the whole, is the implied meaning of what should be in the white box.
 * Use redundancy, for easy learning. Or at least special fonts for novices only, with a lot or redundancy, gradually reducing complexity as they progress. A left click could alternate between posible image.
 * Logic diagrams(2 overlapping circles in a rectangle) for logic expressions, like "AND", "OR", etc. Even unusual logic expressions like "NAND" could be trivially used, or precise distinction between inclusive and exclusive "OR".
 * Visual illusions.
 * Like in chinease, use special characters for inflection, plurals, suffixes, afixes.....
 * Like in chinease, use multiple caracter words, recognized by context. 1 chinease caracter is really 1 root/Compound word. I imagine my system, to sound similarly to the bellow chinease words, my system is genuetly a new language, not english in ideograms, or any other language for that matter.

 * Shiva/Kali-like many arms persons to describe professions.
 * Joke images.
 * Stereotypes.
 * A thermometer for hot/cold concepts. A time line for past/future concepts.
 * Right left, is for redundancy, top down, is for meaning.
 * Always the same guy, doing a class of stuff.
 * Culturally neutral. A "Chinese dragon" means Chinese dragon, a "European dragon" means European dragon and a "Chinese dragon/ European dragon" means dragon. Eventually "Chinese dragon" and "European dragon" should be baned for simplicity, it confuses the rules.
 * Photo manipulated images, in surprising ways.
 * Use of pseudocolors.
 * Use of special visualization techniques, like: sonar, radar, IR, UV, light polarization, changes with the time of day, etc.
 * Use scientific theories, like space-time, atom theory, evolution, etc...
 * Dyslexic and other similar issues, friendly.
 * Use of inversion compound, potentially halves the difficulty.Example, good is "good", bad is "inversion"/"good". The inversion compound could be something like, a mirror(a physical mirror) or the forbidden sing(red circle with red diagonal) or the wrong sing(red X), etc. Its good simplification, but it doesn't seam to be good practice.

3.7 layout
This is a language in its own right. Don't try to treat it as English in ideograms.

Syntax may get exotic, master Yoda got away with it. One possibility, is that all syntaxes are allowed, Esperanto does that. Probably, word order is 1 cultural difference that might survive in to the times of unique world language. If it settles to 1, because of the demographics of the world population, the syntax will be SVO or SOV, most probably SVO(English).

Direction, of writing? In the wild, all possibilities are covered. Due to technical limitations, its rather certain it will be horizontal, vertical writing is very poorly supported by modern software. Most scripts, are left right and probably will impose it self. Directionality, will probably simply being transposed from the native script, further more directionality can easily be changed, in electronic documents, depending what the user wishes, leaving the possibility that native language directionality survives in the common language. An extra possibility, is the use of alternating direction of writing at alternating lines(boustrophedon). The characters support to be read and written from either direction, in contrast to rather long alphabetic words. A different version of a "character" would be used, depending in what direction is supposed to be reed. Directionality could be totally wild, changing randomly at every line, even at the middle of a line turning up or down, actual reeding order hinted by the characters version on the line, this could be left up to the writer, or a specific system imposed by the reader if he wish. For example, the writer wanted to be cool, and followed an inner turning spiral, the reeder finds it to confusing, so he just changed to the usual left-right. Potentially, by leaving the freedom to reader and writers, reading will be more fluid.

"Calligraphy" would correspond in producing nice image flows. The "characters" interact some how, seeing each other, continuity elements on two or more characters, randomly changing direction of reading (for example, in a spiral), image-text blocks being them selves images, random jump points(with images that stand out), bifurcating lines, very artistic single images, use of synonyms solely for aesthetic reasons, direction of reeding, etc.

Each word is coded in binary, and use fonts to represent them. You do not "type" huge images. It seams Unicode will have to gain an extra byte. Its normal kind of fonts, you choose your fonts, you can choose drawings only, photos only, black and white only, no animations, special color blind fonts, sexual overtones everywhere(from copulating ants, to boobs), gore killing and blood every where, etc. Early learners use fonts with more redundancy, trivialized or bigger characters. If you want to make up a new none standard "word", you have to pass along the new image with your documents.

Under this pure ideogram system, ordering is impossible, or very impractical. We can simply use a database as a dictionary. If it comes from the real world, just use a hand held scanner or camera to input it. Less high tech solutions, would involve the use of standard categories with the use of dominant colors and other specificities for some sort of ordering. O course, we can have several categorizing schemes, even totally personalized ones.

matrix barcode

higher capacity, 1914 bytes color barcode

All this is nice on a electronic screen, but what about printing? A technological solution would be, to use special screen-glasses/cameras or contact lenses that decode matrix barcodes (sophisticated 2D barcodes-like patterns), and project to the eye the actual character. Weelll, in the immediate, you should compromize with a camera cellphone making the decoding. Matrix barcodes can be black and white squares, but they can also be in color for greater capacity, present design of color matrix barcode is composed of little colored triangles. Actually the examples are too condensed to be used directly, we still need to spread them in the surface of the paper, so that we can read them sequentially. We could simply spread them, but this would waist paper. We could use them to load whole pages, from a little book with these things, and read them on a special page with special codes for sequentiality. Something like, we turn the little page, and the system automatically updates the virtual page bellow it. This way, with the matrix barcodes, we preserve the nice features from the virtual world(animations, colors, little details, compression, crypting), without needing too much paper space, or efficient printers. If we do print them the normal way, animations could be adapted in stroboscopic sequences, that of course would take more space. If all else fails, we can style fall back to black and white only, with corresponding increase in size or/and reading difficulty. This time the characters don't need to be simplified more then what the printing process needs, in contrast traditional characters had to be drawn by hand.

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With barcodes, the virtual world is brought in to the real world. The need for standardization would disapear completly, all personalized caracters would be displayed to people by technology reading standard machine codes. A slight variation, is to use OCR type of technology. Since every 1 would make up his own caracter set, with his own intuitive mnemonics, learning curves would be totaly obliterated. The extra fact, that you will physicaly build them your self, will have a strong mnemonic effect. Without it, personal standards(oxymoron?), would be possible only on electronic devices(doable, imidiatly).

3.8 input
experimental Chinese keyboard

Input obviously becomes practically impossible by hand, but possible with a computer. No compromizes for writers. Its a writing system, that adapts to us, and lets the computer do its fair share of the work. I can't remember when was the last time i wrote something long and serious on paper with a pen, if i still use paper its because a computer is awkward as a notebook. I bet that a lot of people are in this situation. This extream form of ideograms, would mean that we will be totally dependent on technology, but this is nothing new. Can you wright on a stone with your finger nails? If you have no pen or paper, your knowledge of writing is not of much use. "And what happen if you lose your gadget?", well, don't lose it. For security reasons, we can still learn a standard phonetic emergency alphabet or standard emergency symbols, applicable by hand.

Things do get tougher on input. Its absolutely not meant to be written by hand on paper, total dependence on technology. We can get inspired from Chinese input methods, maybe some existing Chinese input programs could be modified for here. Keyboard with little images, isn't very practical, even a on-screen keyboard. The use of radical images with a keyboard, will put constraints on the complexity of the images, reducing the potential information they can carry and we fall back to the problems of standard ideograms.

EDIT: What an irony, it seams that people in east asia start forgetting how characters are written by hand .... because of them relying too much on the computerized input methods(97% are phonetic). Even that, more obscure and complicated to wright characters are coming back. The phenomenon is called Character amnesia .Of course i predict this trend will continue. Releted to something i'm doing Chinese learning technology(User:Super Quantum immortal)

fuzzy searches top: real images bottom: images extracted from cat's brain .
 * Use fuzzy search to get a first small list of possibilities from the dictionary, out of the 1000s, then click on the wanted 1.
 * Phonetically, with speech to text programs.
 * Phonetically, with a secondary phonetic alphabet. You can also just type in your native language, and software not yet written, will translate it in ideograms, a lot of control is left for configuration to the users. You type "cat", and a image of a cat is proposed. This is not automated machine translation, a human must supervise the process or meaning is lost.
 * The previous methods do smart contextual and other guesses; and propose a list of characters. No need to write/draw the whole word, or even correctly. So you don't have to actually output everything, up on a successful guess, you just need to click the character from the lists. Smart guesses expansion of the above, with more sophistication, special software can be configured or trained with your shortcuts, categorization scheme, and other personalized input ways. This way, it does the most efficient guessing possible from available inputs. You type your way, your shortcuts and your conventions. Example, want to type "cat" character, you can set it to recognize it when you type, "cat" or "kat" or "pussy" or "Felis catus" or "df75à'ùdsq" or "001101100" or "__ ___ ___" or all the above, you set it any way you see fit. The bleeding edge, would be to use a hardware artificial neural net, say, on a usb stick. After a time of use, you and your personal neural net, anticipate each other.
 * The personalized configurations can be saved in a usb stick, on a card, wireless accesses, accessed from a Internet database, surgical implants or what ever way it can be practical. If broken, then you do it the hard way, with some standard guess method, as above
 * Even beater would be direct retrieval of imagined images from the brain. Currently, simple retrieval of black and white, low quality images, from the visual field, requires a massive fMRI; some form of surgery may be necessary for a practical application.

3.9 Font mutations
Currently, chatting of all kinds on the net, are done with emoticons, special unicode symbols, general ascii art and other little images that you chose from a list. We can imagine, that these extra images( and ascii art and unicode), over time, develop in importance and incrementally replace words. Ascii art looks promicing, for example, a fish "><{{{*>" and a mouse "<:3)~", in just 1 line.

And some curent Unicode symbols

▀▄✈☺☻✌✍✎✉☀☃☁☂★☆☮☯〠☎☏♣♤♥♦♧☞☟☚☛☣☠✑✒✄✁✂✇✿❀♪♫

☔☕☼☾❆❅❄✵♲♻♿⚅⚑⚐←↑→↓↔↕⇄⇅↲↳↴↵↶↷↺↻♀♂⚢⚣⚤⚥⚦⚧⚨⚩⚰⚱☢☤✝☦

☧☨☩☪☭♈♉♊♋⌚⚒⚓⚔⚕⚖⚗⚘⚙⚚⚛⚜⚝⛀⛁⛂⛃♔♕♖♗♘♙♚♛♜♝♞♟⠁⠂⠃⠄⠅⠆⠇⠈⠉⠊

▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█▉▊▋▌▍▎▏◧◨◩◪◫◬◭◮◯◰◱◲◳卐����������������⑁⑂

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An intermediary stage would be to abreviate the words more and more severly and the use rebus, disambiguation simbols are added to restore clarity, the disambiguation symbols gradually suck up all the meaning. At some point, they replace the entire text, in parallel the above more sophisticated input methods develop from the trivial list. Motivation, other then coolness, would be to ease readability for those with poor English skills. Standards will evolve organically, what people find most intuitive, the best will prevail out of the clutter. But strictly speaking, they may never be a need to standardize the image, only the machine code behind it.

In practice, for the beginning,no need to go to the trouble of writing special programs at this experimental stage. We just make "emoticons" out of them, as a start its good enough functionality.

3.9.1 font wars
There are many variations of fonts, including sex themed fonts (peaneses, boobs, poses and all the other asortments). Why stop at hum, kinky fonts, we can actually make usefull fonts, that are out of the ordinairy. We take the all other scripts and numerals, that you don't understand, and simply replace them with a certain (official?)translitaration of your favorite script, that you know well. Well, if you prefer having some personalized weird thing, why not, if you whant to replace "A" with a palm tree, or the illuminati piramid, or what ever, why not. Democratization of script creation, you are your personal mad-god-emperor over what script you whant to use, what you use is not the point here. You alredy used to, in using whatever you are using(latin, chinese, Klinon, whatever), you alredy know what it sounds like. The learning curve for the use of foregn scripts, is troncated. if you don't intend to consume the language out side the internet, there litle need to learn the real script. Of course, this cheme stays usefull also for normal learning, you can gradually put back the "normal" fonts, but the objective here is not to be a simple learning aid, its more ambitious.

Less need for stupid mnemonics, learning of foreign languages is axelerated, the scripts are transliterated. Of course oficial transliterations can be respected, or you invent your own. You can use directly mnemonics in you new fonts. You can concentrate more on the real deal(the sounds). Of course its limited simplification, still need prononciation rules, like "ει", "oι", "υι", in greek are simply pronounced "i", but you get something for nothing. Extra diacritics maybe used here, to disambiguate homophones, in order to preserve grammar, for example "ι" and "η", "ο" and "ω". After the pronociation rules are learned, in most cases, the iligal script should be phonetically readable.

current live scripts:

canadian aboriginal, ethiopic, hebrew, georgian, armenian, brahmic family of scripts(south est asia), cirilic, japanease, korean, arabic, greek, chinease.

Even if you don't understand much, still some words are shared in many languages. An improvement since you can at least understand those. You may ask, what do you care about thai alphabet, you endurstand almost nothing. You don't, but people living more locally around that region share more words, then across the other side of the planet. For these cases, the alphabet substitution will help more in practice.

examples:

ресторан restoran restaurant

Лампа lampa lamp

ビール bīru beer

イメージ imēji image

الجبر al-jabr algebra

الكحول al-kuḥūl alcohol

pictorial substitution

unbabel

With chinease (caracters), the real fun begins, we can have control over words, not just phonems. Traditional, simplified and now travestized caracters. This is not heresy, its back to the "oracle bones"(original pictorial chinease, probably) tradition of 1000s of years ago. The beakering between simplified and traditional chinese is byzantine. Actually, this could have hapened since the invention of the printing press, ... that was invented by the chinease... oups in 200 (woodblock printing), they could have used "handriten" and "printed" caracters, as in latin alphabet (yes, i konw about chinease caligraphy).

In staying in the ideographic realm. Chinease fonts, can be replaced at least partially with pictures of what they actually represent, instead of current criptic stuf. Again, theres no need to have a standard in any way. For example, a direct corespondence with old radicals, examples:

明→☼☽ (sun + moon = bright)

女→♀ (woman)

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(can also use mayan and ejyptian hieroglyphs, linear B, A, etc, as images)

(or just replace with a clean original drawing from the "oracle bones")

We can extend this system, to whole caracters, and not just the radicals. To that, we can add extra caracters(just owl), and new radicals. People can use there personal mnemonics for the coresponding meanings as caracters.

4%(pictorial)+13%(logic compounds) of all caracters should be at least mildly digestable by westerners. For the rest(homophone compounds), a vague idea of what it represents commes from the disambiguation symbols (at least partialy replaced). Its interesting to follow closely the radicals, so that curent native readers of chinease are capable to use them. For none chinease, its like they sudently understand the "alphabet", and some words, and a litle bit vagely what some caracter say(disambiguation symbols) with litle effort. Thats more then in normal languages, like for example arab.

color improvements

Unbabel

Fonts don't support colors(yet!!!), but in html we can do some minimal things around this. We can edit individual characters color, and there background(automatically, as the pages load), we are still limited to monochrome characters and background and optionally also blinking(kind of a movement). We at least squeeze in 2(3) extra informations. The colors are logically chosen to match the character. For example, the normal character 日, would become ☼ because of the fonts editing and finally ☼ with the color editing. Conservatives, might want to consider compromising with something like 日 ( certainly with a beater choice of colors, they are 16.777.216 collors to chose from).

block-phonetic

A variation, is to use words in your favorite language. Writen chinease becomes a virtual "language of your chosing" dialect. The learning curve becomes very shalow, just need to learn its quirks (cat headed eagle = owl), this dialect could export more readily these quirks to the original language, the standards will drift towards it. Once learned, you could essencially type in text in a "dialect" of your language, and the other people around the world would understand it thrue there fonts, and there "dialect". So the world language could have this contribution from chinease. Why learn this dialect? Well, its cooler to say "cat headed eagle" then owl. O boy i would speak like this all the time.

Internaly the caracters are stored as combinations of images. 明 is a combination of left 日 and right 月, by exploiting this, we can imagin a program that automatically replaces all instances of 日 (left, right, up, down, etc) with ☼, or "sun", or "___ ___ ___", or whatever the user whants. We can have various forms of semi automated font generation, with different radicals or full caracters.

1/2-block-phonetic, 1/2-ideographic

We can imagine a hybrid pictorial/alphabetic-words. Gradually shifting to a pictorial standard, whille preserving input method.

風向轉變時,有人築牆,有人造風車

Theres litle to no duplication, in a way, you automatically learn the script of all forein languages. So learning a foreign language would mainly consist in learning to speak it. If you know just 1 language, theres redondancy, you realy learned "2" languages, you learned an extra easy writen language (compared to learning complicated phonetical gramatical rules). If you know 2 languages, its as if you learned 2 oral languages, and learned to write both at the same time, with greatly simplified writing rules. This would permit to learn more oral languages.

Probably, people will have a peack at chinease websites, even if they don't understand much, they would reuse the caracters they like in there chating, and accelerate transition to pure ideograms. If certain fonts become more preveiling then others, there will be a shift in official scripts. If you use "chinease" caracters in yout website, you force your readers to install the new fonts, or they will not be able to read with out a steap learning curve. It will bring languages closser together, and speed up merger in to a world language. Standards from the "Unicode Consortium" will be travesized. Unicode: 90 scripts and 107.361 symbols untill now, 1.114.112 maximum possibility with the curent 32bit lenghth encoding. Enough room, for every 1.

O boy, are we done yet? I bet the geniusses that invented unicode, didn't see this 1 comming. The worlds conservatives will go burzek :P.

Tools

Tools: You can easily make your own fonts. You can create/convert an image in black and white as an svg (inkscape), then import it in fontforge. You don't need to do original work, if its just for you, you can snatch any image from the internet. Here are some demo fonts where i edit them to my liking. I latinized various alphabets( Arabic, Greek, Cyrilic, Armenian, Georgian, Hebreu, hiragana/Katakana sylabaries(Japan), Korean, Devanagari(India).) and replaced some radicals in chinease characters(日→☼, 女→♀, 心→♡), giving for example "明→☼☽". I didn't actually imported an svg, that was too much work, i just copy pasted around between existing characters in the font set. This is just a demo, i know its ugly and botched.

Heres a half decent Greasemonkey script (related korean2latin)doing the above. It adds arbitrary colors and background colors to characters, and can also replace characters by images. Under the images scheme, copy-paste still works, depending on the receeving program, its either a normal copy-paste(you can chose the text in the script; this will apply to most receving programms) or a full html copy-paste(with text formating, colors, images and everything; for example aplies to openoffice). Its alredy edited to replace letters with image alphabet for children. You are expected to install apache and pull the images from there, not the web. A beater script might come leater.

Heres a half decent Kate Highlighting file. Kate is a text editor, that can use configuration files for color highlighting schemes. The file, configures individual colors for each each letter, the default colors can be changed in the settings.

A more serious and definitive solution, would be "SVG fonts".

Immidiate practical usage

The collor features and image substitution are immidiatly usable for people with poor vision(near blind) and litle children. Instead of glasses and software lensens, people with poor vision can use colored fonts or substitute images, so they can read with out having to see the details of the caracters. You can imagine, agresive fluorecent collors that make your eyes bleed, but that a near blind person can detect. For litle children, the images sound associations(that they choose) are easier to memorize, this follows the same rational as with adults brains about the unatural nature of normal writing. We could imagine the litle children with a camera, hunting images for there custom ABC, and gluing on they keybord keys there personal alphabet; all that as a game of course(hmmm, could we do that with chimps?). For technical reasons, the new alphabet will be restrained to black and white("normal" fonts). If the "letters" are fondamentally easier to learn, then we shoold be able to learn to read at an earlier age, maybe even concomitantly with learning to speak. We could imagine litle children using instant messaging to comunicate with there mothers, surf the internet(with a white list i supose),etc.... The slhgitly expanded period of literacy should slightly increase the average inteligence of the population, even developed populations would see a slight further improvement. For the future we can imagine, that an image alphabet becomes concurent to the traditional alphabet(the baby alphabet is used throug out life), and end up replacing it. At a further later stage, multiple non standard and concurrent image alphabets, there images are used for there meaning, increamentaly evolving back to ideograms(the exact reverse).

3.10 advantages
literacy rates

You can learn 1000s and 1000s of images relatively easily. Have you seen, the relative size of your visual cortex in the brain(500M years of evolution)? Images convey more meaningful information for the brain and can extract far more information then black lines on a white background. Here we use the visual center at its full capacity, not a subset as with normal writing. Even when characters get complicated, because of there natural visual mnemonic structure, they are easy to remember. Meaning can potentially be logically inferred, even if you never seen a image compound before, its not roket science. In theory learning to read should be extremely fast, even reading at some low level, without any previous learning what so ever. Theres no need to read 500+ page books titled "Remembering the Kanji" for example. If learning is indeed easy, it follows, that every 1 should be able to read it; "wright once, reed everywhere".

With any other language, you need years of learning of arbitrary combinations of information. Learning curve here is totally crushed, to do beater would probably require, plugging needles in your head or something. You just need to learn to recognize abstract words, from image compounds. All the rest, simple objects or concepts, you know them already, a cat is a cat and a dog is a dog, names are just phonetical; but "love", "pain", "complex" are less straight forward. For fluency you need what for a language? 5000 words? If you drop all the simple straight forward stuff, you trim that considerably. Potential for reaching a small child level extremely fast. Basic English has 850 words, in that, trivial image representations are several 100s, you should reach the basic level quite fast, unbeatable.

Because of its independence from oral language and heavy logic structure, even in a zillion years, most should remain readable as is. Even extraterrestrials could decipher some of it, try reading Linear A :P. Our dear ancestors, had the equivalent of a black pen and paper, we have computers, no need to use cryptic and obscure characters. Beater let machines do there fair share of work, we have beater things to do, like dominating the galaxy.

With the Internet, reading has become a very common activity, more then in any other period in the entire human history. Writing as it evolved in our past, didn't had in mind that we will read that vast quantities, over vast numbers of subjects. Todays writing simply isn't optimum for what we are using it in now. I'm arguing, that an image ideographic system, would be beater suited.

From a sociological point of view, as its easier to learn, it could help a bit the iliteracy problem. An other expected consequence, is that oral language, will tend to reproduce the structure of the wrighting, this doesn't happen know because everything is phonetic. For example, abreviations that are weird semantecaly, or the eccentricity of certen logic componds, could leak in too oral words. All this, don't take in to account the possibility, of avoiding the need to standardize.

And of course, the biggest advantage, its that its fun. I was never a literary person -- yea, comics, TV and computer games -- i'm rather literature loathing (probably thats skool's fault), but this on the other hand is really fun. I bet, i'm not the only 1.

3.11 Example characters
I didn't put much effort to set up the examples, its just a demo, prototypes, its not meant to be taken seriously. Of course here the examples are very large. With proper use of compounds some of the examples can be dropped, we don't only need to convey meaning, but also to avoid being overrun by 100.000s of characters. This is just a initial proposal, they are supposed to evolve organically. If carefully done, they can be very intuitive. A start vocabulary of a 5 year old, would need at least 850, 100s of them are trivial images.

wild (wild banana, with its seeds) war (sun tzu, author of the art of war, 6th century BC) paranoid (the Aluminum foil hat, acts as a Faraday cage, so that NASA doesn't read his thoughts) big

paraplegic (the dog has a broken back) anatomy breastfeeding careless

breeding (these cows are so big arsed, that 99% of time they have a cesarean) deformed small (its a snake) eat (its sold like this, its eatable)

execution extinct (dodo and triceratops, both extinct species) fat (fat lab mouse) fencing (the sword sport)

geometry (the shapes are rearranged and a hole appears) homosexual (2 male lions) identical, equal (illusion, the yellow lines are equal in length) impossible (illusion, the impossible cube)

irony (drawn flames) listen (pre radar, sound detector) unroll (normal tape being unrolled, emits faint light, 30 seconds exposure) masochist (needles of various sizes in pelvis, self inflicted by a masochist)

poverty movement (illusion, static image) pacifist parallel (illusion, the lines are parallel)

3.12 sample dictionary
A sample image-ideograms dictionary. The 100 most frequent English worlds.

3.13 Related
Playing with Chinese Chinese learning technology(User:Super Quantum immortal)

Idea for the partially sighted Colored alphabet for the partially sighted (User:Super Quantum immortal)

An other idea is to completely anglicize the fonts in Unicode. Can be scripted