> I would love to see or find a group of people who are just interested in getting together and banging heads together and see what comes out.
Great idea! Something similar has actually happened, not with the HN community, but just a handpicked group of highly intelligent people put into a room together with the mission of coming up with innovative new ideas. It is described in this article.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_...