Infrastructure Numbering

Making progress doesn't always involve improvements in technology. Here are some examples of low-tech ideas that would greatly improve the world.

Wherever humans settle there are telephone poles. I have long wondered why we don't attach a number to every telephone poles. GPS can be spoofed or jammed and it's satellites can be shot down. Numbered telephone poles would provide an invulnerable backup system. Any location in a human settlement could be described by the number on the nearest telephone pole.

For that matter, we could get a lot more out of infrastructure numbering. Why aren't the traffic lights in a city numbered? This would make navigation and expressing a location much easier. Traffic signs, and even speed bumps, could be numbered.

I think that every street in a city should be assigned a number, in addition to it's name, with mostly north-south streets being given even numbers and mostly east-west streets being given odd numbers. At least for some official purposes, it would be more convenient to express streets by this number rather than their name. Everything could be described by numbers.

On a map or world atlas, we can see that countries and geographical entities come in all different shapes. Why don't we make use of this? Why don't we describe something that is oddly-shaped by the country or geographic entity that it most resembles?

But the next frontier in high technology should be obvious. The brain creates electromagnetic waves, neural oscillations. We shouldn't have to ask for anything or push any buttons. There should be a hat that reads what we want from our brain waves and puts images directly into our brains so we don't have to look at screens.