My thoughts on stuff

1. Modular half-way houses in each town/village/suburb in the country. The NHS is under enormous pressure for bed space as a result of the lack of available social care facilities. There are huge numbers of people well enough to be discharged from hospital but not well enough to return to living alone. They do not need nursing or specialist care, simply someone to look after them. The budgets do not exist for live in care for every individual so often they are waiting for a space to open up in a care home. So could we add bed capacity quickly and alter it with demand? Perhaps the solution would be an area in each population centre dedicated to care modules - individual stand alone units that are transportable and can simply connect into site services. Clustering these homes together allows dedicated on site carers longer with each patient, allows onsite meal preparation and service and allows district nurses to visit and advise on health issues. Modular design would allow mass m...

You have probably by now heard of Bitcoin, the magic money making machine that doubles in value every 24 hours, until it doesn't. Bitcoin is the most famous example of a cryptocurrency - an electronic means of exchange - that has a value because people think it has a value. The logic behind cryptocurrencies was to create a trustless means of exchange. Instead of having to believe that the gold you were giving me was real gold, or the bank transfer you were paying me with wouldn't turn out to be a scam, a system would be created that would record every transaction ever made.  To ensure this record of transactions could be trusted completely it would be written down onto lots of computers. When all of the computer records matched the transaction would be completed. This is called "the ledger" and the system of writing it down onto lots of different "blocks" that form one "ledger" is known as the "block chain". Now within the...