CORONA LOCK DOWN I was in prison for 28 years. I did substantial portions of that time in prison inside the prison. I prison we make light of many things. One of those things, that no one in prison actually wants to ever have to deal with, is prison inside the prison--solitary confinement or segregation. When you get in a fight that goes bad ( by you hurting someone too much) or you get confirmed as a gang member or you get in a physical confrontation with one of the guards that work at the prison you wind up in solitary confinement. You only get one hour of the day out of your cell. And that's only on the days the guards feel like it. You get to live around people that have slightly and completely lost their minds. The only time you get to interact with these other people is by yelling over the walkways or going outside to your designated cage while they are in their's. All of your movements are restricted. Even more so than in regular prison popul...
IMAGINE That a disaster has occurred. One that destroys buildings, floods neighborhoods or burns them to the ground... As things stand now responders react and move in to save lives. They do what they can with the technology they have. Over the course of months or, in some cases years, authorities and NGOs attempt to bring the communities stricken back to life. IMAGINE A FUTURE Where things can be done faster and better. Bridges can be built in a matter of hours or days... Private companies can come into disaster zones and build homes immediately... During and immediately after disasters strike people have to be rescued. This is the most important part of the whole disaster response--saving human lives. What if technology that already exists could make doing this quicker and better??? What if drones were actually used to get people over collapsed or flooded areas? What if a Google Glass or Holo Lens Helmet could help r...
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