Got thinking about the end. As in what happens to all that food we just ate in the end, kind of end.
Well I want to expand on the idea with India's example. With a land mass a third of the continental United States and a population over 1 Billion (by some measures) we can deduce the following -
An average human produces about 1 pound of excreta a day. That is approx 1B pounds of excreta in the whole nation. Since 75% of it is water the dry bacteria loaded content is only about 250 million pounds which is about 100 million kilos in the desi system.
Now think what 100 million kilos or 114 thousand tons of shit per day looks like.
That is the equivalent of six thousand semi tractor trailers full of hard turd lined up per day.
Now you may say I am full of it - but lets not joke here.
Of this about 50% conservatively speaking is not processesed successfully due to poor infrastrcture etc. That means around 3000 truck loads of crap is being channeled into the local ecosystems daily.
Over 30 states make up the country so on rough math basis you have 100 trucks worth of the goop going into the local water and food and air.
Solution - mass incineration of all turd - gather people at local turd drop locations to perform their ablutions and then just torch the whole thing every day. I think that is money well burned.
But alas someone will raise a stink about this.
This time for a tech conference in the realm of what else? AI. But applied to an oft neglected space called Knowledge Management. The latter is a community of practice that focuses on analyzing, organizing and making available reams of data that have been gathered over time by various functions within an organization for anyone in the company to utilize. This function or process is ripe for applying AI agents (or agentic AI framework) and optimize for better outcomes. It was informative. More rewarding was getting acquainted with folks who practice this craft as well as learning of what they see in the corporate or public sectors. Since the venue was Washington DC it also afforded me the chance to take evening strolls albeit the weather was trying. With wind chill in the single digit it still is a glamorous place to perambulate through history absorbing what this country has been through since its founding days. I was able to visit the place Lincoln was killed along with his monument t...
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