Minions. Vehicles. Flash and Flare. Armor. Sensors. Trickery. Inherent Superpowers. Inside the high-tech fortresses of the super-rich. The rich like to think they understand investments and they made 93% of all the wealth gains just since Obama came to office. Hey richies, what about investing your own community/nation to solve the problems instead of offshoring wealth to avoid tax or even giving up citizenship for a better tax haven? Wouldn't it be nice to see no homeless, not be fearful of petty crime and home break-ins, and manifest a dramatic drop in feelings of desperation by the masses? Instead the rich have decided to wall themselves off - almost following the israeli model with settlements, checkpoints, security forces, surveillance, separate roads and points of access, control of the political process, etc. - is life in a bunker really so great, even if it's a gilded bunker?
If we simply imposed a transaction tax on Wall street of 1/10th of one-cent per dollar we could raise up to $1 trillion each year. 6 Insanely Valuable Real Treasures (And How to Steal Them) Heist movies such as Ocean's Eleven and The Italian Job like to present the world as a loose network of heavily guarded treasures, just waiting for you and your ragtag yet likeable bunch of henchmen to pocket them. And you know what? The real world is exactly like that, too. There's loot scattered all over the world, just begging for a charming gentleman thief and his plan that is so insane that it just ... might ... work. #6. The Great Pyramid's Secret Chambers The Great Pyramid of Giza is easy to brush off as old news when it comes to heisting. After all, it's been there for a long time, and almost every chamber has already been emptied 10 times over.
Almost. There are still some interesting discoveries to be made. New ScientistOr a sex dungeon. Researchers drilled through the block at the end of the shaft in 2002 and indeed found an honest-to-goodness secret chamber. However, the other secret chamber is a different matter. Talking PyramidsNot much of a man, but still. However ... #5. . #4. Are photographic memories real -- and could you have one? I've never really had success with the Memory Palace, though I've been fascinated with the idea since I first encountered it in the Ariel Hawksquill character in "Little, Big". What I have had success with is icons. I suspect it's just a minor update of the same thing, but as understood by a citizen of this century.
Say in the morning I notice I'm out of coffee beans and I want to buy more at the coffee shop on my way home after work (but don't want to write down a list—maybe I realize I'm out while at some place too inconvenient to write it down). What I do is imagine a convenient icon for a bag of coffee—it could be the bag of coffee itself, or a steaming cup o' joe, or my coffeepot—and then I picture the store where I want to buy it from—and then I place my icon for coffee over the doorway to the store.
When I come home and up out of the subway 9 hours later I just automatically remember to buy a bag of coffee beans at Gregory's. Any of you guys do anything like that? 12 Magical Items and the Real Life Gadgets that Resemble Them. Leonardo Da Vinci: History's Most Unexpected Supervillain.