Zeno's Paradox
November 03, 2003 - Grad School

One of these days, I'll go to grad school. Here is a list of projects that I would be interested in researching:

1. Can direct democracy work in a population center of around 1000 people with the appropriate information infrastructure in place?

2. Can Bayesian algorithms be used to predict the voting habits of SCOTUS justices on the basis of their words in oral arguments?

3. What kind of context-aware searching infrastructure can be built into the web? How does this gel with the semantic web movement?

4. What would be the political and policy ramifications of a completely transparent federal gov't?

5. Is a model of national government where states hold the majority of the gov't power a sustainable model in the modern age? Rephrased: Could the Articles of Confederacy succeed in the 21st century given advancements over the last 200 years?

6. What is the developmental impact of things like three-dimensional video games, instant global communication, and media saturation on children who grow up in an environment playing games like Quake, using AOL IM and cell phones to chat with their friends, and being deluged in a river of information since birth through television and the Internet? How is the psychological profile of such a child different than one who has grown up without such things?

7. What are the measurable impacts of the increasing polarization of American society?

I'm sure that there are more, but this all I have at the moment.

Posted by br284 at 01:51 PM

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