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Open Source the Future: Why Food, Water, and Healthcare Knowledge Must Belong to Everyone

December 25, 2025December 25, 2025 Robert Smith

Open the Knowledge or Admit the System Is a Lie Capitalism, regulated trade, markets—fine.I’m not here to argue against exchange or incentive. Capitalism is very

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Seasonal Amnesia

December 22, 2025December 22, 2025 Robert Smith

This piece is offered in honor of the long side of the winter solstice. We have crossed the dark hinge of the year and come

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The Closest Thing We Have to a Real Replicator

December 17, 2025December 17, 2025 Bright Meadow Group

And Why We’ve Been Burying the Future Instead In Star Trek, the replicator is treated like magic. You ask for a thing, and the machine

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When Cats Get History

December 13, 2025December 13, 2025 Bright Meadow Group

A proposal to turn blighted malls into rescue colonies, living archives, and a non-invasive research platform for animal intelligence America has a growing inventory of

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Supercritical Research is Super Critical

December 12, 2025December 12, 2025 Robert Smith

Supercritical: The Frontier State of Matter We’re Ignoring — and Why It Might Be the Real Science of Alchemy There’s a strange truth running quietly

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DESIGN PHILOSOPHY RANT

December 9, 2025December 12, 2025 Bright Meadow Group

“I Am an Edge Species.” People ask me what niche I fill.What role I play.What “space” Bright Meadow Group occupies in the consulting world. Here’s

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THE RIVER OF WASTE:

November 30, 2025November 30, 2025 Bright Meadow Group

Why America Must Stop Throwing Away Its Industrial Future Lead Article in the River Refugium Project Series We’re Looking at the Mississippi All Wrong Every

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Introducing the River Refugium Project

November 29, 2025November 30, 2025 Bright Meadow Group

A Bright Meadow Group overview Every once in a while, a project grows large enough that you have to step back, take a breath, and

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Thought Experiment: The Capacitance Grid

November 19, 2025November 19, 2025 State Fair Judge

Thought Experiment: The Capacitance Grid We often celebrate solar panels and wind turbines as the heroes of clean energy. And they are—but they come with

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Reimagining the Mississippi River Valley

April 4, 2025April 4, 2025 State Fair Judge

Editors Note: I went a little off the beaten path with today’s thought experiment. I started with a real-world problem—the growing Dead Zone in the

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Reviewing Separatism

March 15, 2025March 15, 2025 State Fair Judge

Reminder: this is a thought experiment. THINK! TRIGGER WARNING: This blog involves direct and honest discussion of race and the ideas espoused by various racial

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Fighting back against DOGE

March 10, 2025March 10, 2025 State Fair Judge

American’s institutions are under attack! Across the United States, Americans are witnessing the devastating consequences of an unprecedented attack on the vital institutions and services

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Digital rework of Oil Painting "Interdependence 3: The Big Picture" by StepBastard TSOTA Robb Smith
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The Strength of Mutual Support

February 20, 2025February 20, 2025 State Fair Judge

Applying Bill Mollison’s Teachings to OUR Struggle One of the greatest myths of modern civilization is the idea of self-sufficiency in isolation. The lone wolf,

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Training Ai to benefit us.

January 29, 2025January 29, 2025 State Fair Judge

The Next Big Step: How We Can Shape the Future of Intelligence Introduction For a long time, people have tried to understand their place in

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Teaching our creation, learning ourselves

January 29, 2025January 29, 2025 State Fair Judge

A positive view on the responsibility of birthing AI Introduction Throughout history, humanity has sought to understand its place in the grand cycle of existence.

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Banking on the Green Revolution:

January 28, 2025January 28, 2025 State Fair Judge

The Case for Tying Construction Loans to Renewable Energy By anchoring America’s financial institutions to environmental responsibility, we might discover a rare alignment of ecological

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Lilly Sewage Company?

January 22, 2025January 22, 2025 State Fair Judge

What If Eli Lilly Took Over Sewage Treatment in Indianapolis? Indianapolis has a problem—a problem shared by many cities but compounded by its industrial backbone.

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