The concept: Starve the HIV virus of its food by disabling the body’s ability to produce a variety of immune cells, place the patient in a sterilized environment such as used by SCID patients, or notably, David Vetter. Once the virus has starved itself to death, reactivate the immune system and release the patient from the sterilized environment.

Key challenges to this concept are:

1. Determine if we can  starve the virus to death, and the time frame needed to do so if possible.
2. Developing methods for temporarily disabling and re-enabling the body’s production of immune cells.

This idea was born in 1996 whilst briefly studying the virus in a chemistry class.

A thought engineer is someone who creates ideas and concepts. Aforementioned ideas and concepts need not be entirely original, but rather unique in application, or creative in delivery or all of the above. Examples include but are not limited to: Tim Berners-Lee, Vannevar Bush, Alan Kay, and George Orwell just to name a tiny few.

Thought engineers are essential to the evolution of society. In the article Web N+1, Steven Pemberton cites that we are now creating things faster then we can name them. If nomenclature were to follow the peril of Moore’s Law this would mean as time moves on we will have more and more technology then vocabulary to describe it. So obviously we will need more thought engineers mastering the art of nomenclature.

By now hopefully you have the idea. Questions/comments/rants always welcomed.