Project 10 to the 100th
Google at it again with a badass idea.
http://www.project10tothe100.com
The premise? You submit your idea to help the world – if you win you get 10 million dollars.
So anyways, I am in the process of getting my idea in there. I will be posting here first for comments and help.
Entries must be put in the following format:
1. One sentance that best explains the idea.
2. 300 words of the idea in greater depth.
3. 150 words on the issues/problems the idea addresses.
4. 150 words on who would benefit and how.
5. 150 words on the initial steps to get the idea off the ground.
6. 150 words on the optimal outcome if idea is selected and implimented.
Optional (IMO necessary) 30 second YouTube video explaining the idea.
So anyways, my idea obviously involves bullet trains. I am going to post an outline later tonight of an idea I have been working on the past year or so, and I am looking for help because this is clearly my one shot. Also I am interested to see if you guys also have any ideas that can be submitted.
Do we know anybody that is good at making YouTube movies? Who does those YouTube clips of Brandon Roy doing BBall moves? He probably loves bullet trains, right?
Wednesday, September 24 at 7:56 am
Due October 20th. Lets get to work jerks.
Wednesday, September 24 at 2:55 pm
If you’re willing to allow Creation Science to be taught on your bullet train I think I may know a couple amateur filmmakers who could be of service.
Thursday, September 25 at 8:56 am
A small price to pay for a sweet bullet train video.
Sunday, September 28 at 7:33 am
I have submitted my ideas!
Would love to hear what you all think?
The link is in my name.
I didn’t do the youtube part myself so sorry not much help there.
May be there is a rating system on youtube that rates the quality of vids you could use to find someone?
Have to admit to not having that great an internet connection so can’t actually use youttube myself LOL
Monday, September 29 at 10:41 am
I read the faq for this and it seems to me that if your idea is selected they don’t give you 10 million dollars they give it to an organization to implement the idea. What you get for winning is quote
Q: What do I get if my idea is chosen? A: You get good karma and the satisfaction of knowing that your idea might truly help a lot of people.
Monday, September 29 at 12:17 pm
Which is fine, if somebody actually does it right.
Monday, September 29 at 3:07 pm
It’s fine to give a corporation exclusive rights to your ideas with a potential to millions off of them, in exchange for a pat on the back?
hmm
Tuesday, September 30 at 7:45 am
I think Jay’s statement is exactly why this country/species is a complete piece of shit. What an unthinkable idea to do something that benefits the world without getting a personal gain.
Tuesday, September 30 at 7:56 am
I would be more than happy to do something to benefit the world without personal gain if google and their constituants didn’t stand to make significant gains without sharing them with the person who generated them. Wake up and smell the corporate greed.
Tuesday, September 30 at 8:21 am
I don’t really care if other people make a lot of money off an idea of mine. Corporate greed or not, if it makes a difference that seems to be the important thing.
This reminds me of a news story I heard about a scientist who created a very effecient electric generator. Instead of patenting and selling it to some corporaton in an effort for personal monetary gain he openly displayed it to everyone in an effort help advance the cause of green energy. That kind of thinking is what this world needs more of.
Tuesday, September 30 at 8:57 am
I agree that the world needs more of that kind of thinking, but put it in perspective, that scientist was probably already well established and had access to present his idea to a corporation which most people do not.
Whether we like it or not we live in a capitalistic society, and to get realistic and valuable ideas you need to compensate for them. We give a million dollars away for one’s unique ability to pick out the right suitcase, yet someone who comes up with an idea that can change the world we give nothing. Seems out of whack to me…
Tuesday, September 30 at 10:24 am
Why is one way of releasing an idea better than any another? Who cares if a person patents it for himself to sell, licenses it out for free, donates it to a cause, or pitches the idea to Google for them to fund? If you have the good idea, you are free to choose what to do with it. That is the only thing that matters.
my opionion is that Google is tapping an inventory of ideas that would otherwise never see the light of day, so why not benefit from that.
Tuesday, September 30 at 10:37 am
I would agree. It is not like Kevin doesn’t have the opportunity to pitch his idea to the free market. I think Chainsaw has proven that he will have no takers, but the option is there. I think Google is trying to tap into the millions of people out there that think they have this great idea, but are too lazy, unmotivated, or stoned to do anything with it. It is a lot easier to type up 300 words desriptions then try the very daunting task of getting your idea infront of someone who has money and will give a shit, no matter how good the idea is. My father had a pretty awesome rear facing child car seat mirror patent that I can assure you corporate america was foolishly avoiding like the fucking plague.
The scientist in my story was actually just some smart old hippy who came up with it in his garage. His thought was he wanted everyone to build on his idea and make it better. He didn’t want one entity to bogart the idea in an effort to make a profit from it. His intellectual property was better availabe to all in a cooperative effort the way ideas and science were meant to be shared.
Tuesday, September 30 at 11:23 am
The old hippy is going open source just like how Benjamin Franklin gave his ideas back to the public domain (after initially profiting from them). Its how the internet (the WWW anyway) was opened up to the world when CERN donated the code to the public, and why if you click ‘help’ and ‘about Internet Explorer’ Microsoft has to credit the University of Illinios with the invention.
My biggest problem with our system right now is the way and time frame that people have rights to their ideas (with regards to copyrights and intellectual property), and by that I mean that corporations have taken too much control and people need to wrestle it back. Corporation’s copyright law lobbyists have successfully moved a copyright up to something like the artists life plus 70 years and it makes no sense to me why your grandchildren should benefit from your bright idea before it goes back to the public domain.
Tuesday, September 30 at 2:58 pm
I think it is pretty common knowledge Ben Franklin use to smoke quite a bit of pot