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		<title>Electric Drag Racer Sets Records</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2011/04/13/electric-drag-racer-sets-records/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 06:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[batteries]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[electric cars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[lithium ion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plugin electric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[speed]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plugin electric car beats gasoline muscle cars at drag racing. White Zombie set records with simple lead acid batteries. The fact this car was setting speed records using simple, reliable, cheap, lead acid batteries is the major innovation. The definition of innovation is: Profitably satisfy unmet desires Profitably doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean money, it means all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prediction: Meaningful Image Resize, Key Technology</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2011/01/28/prediction-meaningful-image-resize-key-technology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abundance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[algorithm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data compression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hyper-customization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[key technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[predictive innovation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meaningful image resize has larger importance than just intelligently resizing images to maintain the essential object. This is key innovation technology. Removing or adding non-essential portions of an image to decrease or increase the size while maintaining the objects in the image keeps the informational value. This is a form of data compression. This technology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robot Strawberry Picker, Abundance Report</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2011/01/25/robot-strawberry-picker-abundance-report/</link>
		<comments>http://markproffitt.com/2011/01/25/robot-strawberry-picker-abundance-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abundance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal aliens]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[independence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[means of production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[migrant workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self sufficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social equity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[strawberry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://markproffitt.com/?p=804</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the USA picking strawberries is hard low paid work for migrant, often illegal alien, workers. Japan&#8217;s robot strawberry picker comes from a different mindset. Most post-industrialized nations complain about cheap foreign labor taking their jobs. Similarly people living in high income nations complain that automation is eliminating jobs, even jobs no one really wants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U of M Startup Weekend, starts tonight</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2011/01/21/u-of-m-startup-weekend-starts-tonight/</link>
		<comments>http://markproffitt.com/2011/01/21/u-of-m-startup-weekend-starts-tonight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ann arbor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[entrepreneur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new product development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[startup]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://um.startupweekend.org/ Build a product, start a business, in a weekend.]]></description>
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		<title>Student Driver Flips Car at My Friend&#8217;s House</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2010/04/16/student-driver-flips-car-at-my-friends-house/</link>
		<comments>http://markproffitt.com/2010/04/16/student-driver-flips-car-at-my-friends-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abundance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dermot dobson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[funny]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[long tail]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photos of a student driver who flipped the car are funny. What makes it weird and an example of Abundance is how I heard about it. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1265629/Learner-driver-flips-instructors-car&#8211;SECOND-lesson.html My friend, John, sends me a lot of links to funny or important news and just things he finds that might interest me. John sent me the link [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abundance Report: Video Conference from the Jungle</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2010/02/15/abundance-report-video-conference-from-the-jungle/</link>
		<comments>http://markproffitt.com/2010/02/15/abundance-report-video-conference-from-the-jungle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abundance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cell phones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gsm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life style]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open source]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philippines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[post scarcity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skype]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thailand]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I experienced an amazing example of abundance. My friend in Thailand called me. She and her friends took a drive two hours out of Bangkok to a nature preserve. When she was there she used her GSM cell phone to connect her laptop to the Internet and show me live video of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Don’t Have Flying Cars, Yet</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2010/01/23/why-we-don%e2%80%99t-have-flying-cars-yet/</link>
		<comments>http://markproffitt.com/2010/01/23/why-we-don%e2%80%99t-have-flying-cars-yet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prediction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airplane safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[automobile safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[automotive innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[automotive safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[car innovations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flying car]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future cars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[predicting innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel safety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We won’t have flying cars until we have ground-based cars that drive themselves. Any particular innovation must achieve all the required Outcomes to satisfy the overall desire. One of the essential outcomes of transportation is arriving safely. Making a small mistake while flying is a lot more dangerous than when driving. Over 37,000 fatal vehicle [...]]]></description>
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