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Citizen octopus™

Crowdfunded and community-powered, Citizen Octopus maps the world’s hidden health patterns to fight disease and improve health education for everyone.

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Every day, hundreds of millions of people, like us, post about their lives online; what they eat, the activities they enjoy, the work they do, and the health challenges they face. It’s a treasure trove of untapped health data, scattered across the digital world.Citizen Octopus is you and I - people joining together to harness this data and let AI find the patterns no one has seen before. This is data mining at scale, not health opinion or guesswork. Millions of real-world data points revealing correlations that traditional research may never uncover.Think of it like this: if 18th-century sailors had posted about sore gums without saying ‘scurvy,’ but mentioned craving limes, AI could connect the dots. Citizen Octopus aims to uncover and provide those kinds of health insights by analyzing data on a scale not possible until now.Our focus:• Food : What we eat and drink.
• Activities : How we move and spend our time.
• Occupations : The work we do and the environments we’re in.By mapping millions of observations across these categories, our AI may detect strong, actionable links between lifestyle and health. Links that can point science toward new ways to fight disease and improve well-being.Why now?Traditional health research is slow, expensive, and often too narrow. Digital life generates unprecedented amounts of lifestyle and health-related data every single day.The power of scale means that, with enough data, important and previously unknown connections will emerge, connections no single expert could guess.How you can help?Donate to help advance the Citizen Octopus project including plans for an opt-in analysis app.
Share this page with people passionate about health, science, or technology.As conceived, the app would allow volunteers to securely contribute their lifestyle data and receive aggregated insights in return.Your contribution today supports efforts to uncover patterns that may help fight disease and improve health for millions.

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What is Citizen Octopus?
Citizen Octopus is a crowdfunded, community-powered project to map real-world health patterns and fight disease. By connecting food, activities, occupations, and health outcomes through large-scale, privacy-safe data analysis, we aim to reveal patterns no single expert could guess.
Is this based on opinion?
No. This is data mining at scale, drawing from hundreds of millions of real-world data points to find statistically strong correlations between lifestyle factors and health outcomes.
How will data handled?
Participation will be entirely opt-in. We will process only data volunteers choose to share and focus on aggregated, anonymized patterns not personal raw content.
What might the study app do?
As conceived, the app would allow volunteers to securely contribute their lifestyle data and receive aggregated insights in return. Development is a goal, not a guarantee, and will depend on funding and community participation.
What kinds of patterns are you looking for?
We focus on the connections between diet, activities, occupations, and health outcomes. Our goal is to surface patterns that may help prevent disease, improve well-being, and guide future research.
Will the results be available?
Yes. Aggregate findings are intended to be provided so the public, researchers, and health organizations can act on them. Donors will receive priority access.
How can I follow progress?
Check back here for updates. We’ll post milestones, summaries, and any notable patterns uncovered as the project evolves.
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Citizen Octopus™ is a project of Arrow Dot Press Ltd. © 2025 Arrow Dot Press Ltd. All rights reserved.Registered Office: Pagosa Springs, CO • USAContact: [email protected] or 500 Westover Drive STE 15985 Sanford, NC 27330

A think tank for the millions

Citizen octopus™

A Better Way to Spend $2.3 Trillion: How Citizen Health Cards Could Fix America’s Healthcare Economy

The United States now spends roughly $2.3 trillion a year on healthcare through federal programs and tax breaks. That equals about $6,742 for every American, before counting state and local spending, which pushes the figure closer to $9,000 per person. Yet prices keep climbing, paperwork multiplies, and quality remains inconsistent. Most of that money never touches an individual’s hands. It disappears into a maze of premiums, subsidies, and reimbursements that grow automatically, year after year.Imagine instead that the same dollars were placed directly on citizen health cards - digital accounts funded each year for every adult and child. The balance, controlled by the consumer, could be used to buy insurance, pay doctors directly, or save for future care. Crucially, the government would credit the accounts, not spend the cash, until a citizen actually used it. Unused balances would simply remain on the card, earning interest and building a personal health reserve.That single change would turn healthcare from an inflation engine into a deflationary marketplace.The deflationary effectWhen consumers control the money, prices can’t hide. Clinics and hospitals would have to post transparent fees and compete for business. Wasteful intermediaries would vanish, and preventive care would flourish because patients could see what it really costs. Over time, when a citizen accumulates enough in their account (say $25,000) they could spend additional allotments on any needs not exclusively healthcare.
This isn’t austerity. It’s efficiency through choice. Competition and transparency drive prices down while rewarding providers who deliver real value.The AI inflection pointThe timing couldn’t be better. Artificial intelligence is already reading X-rays, analyzing labs, and guiding treatment plans for a fraction of today’s prices. But in our insurance-driven system, those savings will simply widen corporate margins instead of lowering costs. In a citizen-credit model, AI’s deflationary power flows straight to the public. Low-cost diagnostic tools, digital triage, and remote monitoring could finally make quality care affordable to everyone.
AI is ready to lower costs but only a system that gives consumers control will let that happen.From health inflation to broad prosperityAs citizens save more and spend less on overpriced care, the unspent billions remain in Treasury accounts until used, reducing government cash outflow. Those idle balances effectively lend back to the public sector and strengthen fiscal stability. Meanwhile, individuals who reach self-insurance levels can redirect new allotments toward wellness, education, or home improvements. Employers, no longer trapped by mandatory insurance costs, can raise wages or expand hiring.The same federal health dollars that once fueled medical inflation would now boost local economies, savings, and entrepreneurship. Every year, the country would grow healthier and wealthier at the same time.A controllable futureBy shifting existing healthcare funding directly to citizens, America could finally make health costs predictable and sustainable. Government spending would remain roughly the same, but it would circulate through a competitive marketplace that rewards efficiency instead of volume. Combined with AI’s coming wave of diagnostic automation, this approach could achieve what decades of regulation have failed to deliver: a healthcare system that deflates in cost, improves in quality, and strengthens the broader economy.We already spend enough to give every American excellent care. We just spend it in the wrong direction. It’s time to put the dollars, and the decisions, back into citizens’ hands.

Citizen Octopus™ is a project of Arrow Dot Press Ltd. © 2025 Arrow Dot Press Ltd. All rights reserved.Registered Office: Pagosa Springs, CO • USAContact: [email protected] or 500 Westover Drive STE 15985 Sanford, NC 27330