Observing the world around me

If I had the power to control and/or manipulate the world around me, these are a few things I would do:

1) Subway Flow: Maybe its one of my pet peeves but I can't stand it when a subway train stops and a multitude of people get in front of the door, blocking any space for those passengers who want to get off. I know I know, people want to get good seats, and it's a race against the other door "team". But what this does is annoy the people trying to get off the train, and make the whole process slower and more tedious.

My Solution: Set up a door for entering the train, and another one for exiting. This would create a nice flow (if people would actually play along).

Sci-fi Solution: Build a forcefield where the yellow lines are drawn on the platform floor. They would only get deactivated after all the passengers in the train have gotten off. This way people won't fall off to the tracks, they won't throw trash, and will leave some space between the train doors and the platform so that passengers might get off with some space.


2) Intelligent Elevator: Has it ever happened to you that you press an elevator button, and then decide we won't get into the elevator after all? There's no way of telling the elevator not to stop. Sometimes this annoys people who are anxious to get to their floor, and have to wait while the elevator stops in a floor with no one waiting.

My Solution:
a) Make the elevator button act as an on/off switch, so that you can actually cancel the action of going to a floor.
b) Build a device to know if people are standing outside the elevator (motion capture, infrared, etc).


3) The Truman Show Experience: Sometimes I feel like life is a big Sitcom. Maybe I've watched a lot of movies, or maybe I have a really big imagination. So thinking about this, it makes me wonder how could I change life to make it more sitcom-ish. Here's a small list:

a) everyone has a catchy phrase whenever they enter a room
b) whacky neighbor
c) someone has a BIG problem every day
d) someone has a personal dance people love
e) no matter how lame a joke is, you hear laughs everywhere
f) everyone is hot and sexy
etc...