Google's Solve for X Website Goes Online
Google is expected to unveil a new website that is apparently designed as a communication channel for "moonshot thinking" and solutions that "could help billions of people".
A YouTube video for the "Solve for X" website describes a thinktank approach that aims to deliver a "radical solution" for a "huge problem" in order to develop a "breakthrough technology". Google itself says "Solve for X is a place where the curious can go to hear and discuss" those ideas.
A few more information pieces have emerged on Monday, implying that visions will have to presented in a laser-focused 12-minute monologue to a "highly accomplished group of people" in a conference environment. Google lifted the importance of the presentations to the likes of Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy. It is inspiration, passion and intelligence the company is looking for.
It seems, occasionally, many of us have dreams to improve the world we live in, but we typically get stuck because we lack an ability to attract the resources to realize that dream. Solve for X sounds like a forum for exactly those dreamers. If you are a dreamer - and a genius - this may be the place for you to apply.
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Awesome... now the government can redirect and corrupt good ideas from a centralized location.
Why not work with TED?
i want to join............. my long lasting dreams..
I just had nightmareish flashbacks back to algebra from that name. Thanks a lot Google!
Whatever happened to "Don't be evil"?
awww damn, i thought this was literally going to be a website dedicated to solving functions...
There is potential here - particularly if you are a holder of a well conceived idea of global importance. Some of us have that, some don't. One thing is for sure - any idea that looks beyond the ever present short term to a direction of true goal and incredible benefit needs an outlet for consideration.
Its a blog. Plus marketing.
Dont care.
sigh...
I envision about a thousand people all applying for a patent on an idea all at once.... along with a thousand lawsuits all at once.............
So much for viewing the Snaps section on iPad. What happened to using j-query for effects?
sigh...I envision about a thousand people all applying for a patent on an idea all at once.... along with a thousand lawsuits all at once.............
If its for the common good then the ideas should be given freely, to create a better world for everyone...
wow i woke on the wrong side of the bed...
I just had nightmareish flashbacks back to algebra from that name. Thanks a lot Google!Whatever happened to "Don't be evil"?
Really? Nightmareish algebra?
I just had nightmareish flashbacks back to algebra from that name.
Yeah. Last week I walked in a meeting room and someone had written, "solve for x where 3x - 12 = 89" on the white board. So traumatic, I left for the day...
x= 33.666
not that hard really..
I could see this working as more of a hub for inventors, techies, and those with problems they need help with where they all collaborate to come up with solutions to various problems. That would be a cool, innovating, and possibly successful site. This just sounds like Google is making a site where you can give away your ideas.