New Google funding award: Project 10^100
To help celebrate its 10th birthday, the ambitious Internet giant is launching an initiative to solicit, and bankroll, fresh ideas it believes could have broad and beneficial impact on people's lives.
The much-loved Hippo Water Roller was the prime example they cited.
Devil's advocate for a second: The Hippo is great, many people agree; but despite being a well-envisioned & impactful tool for people, it's still kind of a "band-aid" solution. Which might mean that Google's award is focused on that type of solution, rather than on funding plans for systemic change that could, e.g., eliminate the infrastructure problems that cause water scarcity in the first place.
But on the other hand, solutions of that type would require much, much more than $10 million to implement (or even to get started), and would be a tough realm for social entrepreneurs to break into. The realm of the UN and international aid organizations, and of local governments. And lastly, I personally think that no "master plan to fix everything" could ever be implemented on that scale. More feasible to use opportunities like Google's award to steadily make more & more advantages available to the regular citizens of the world until everyone is sufficiently self-empowered to have clout.
End of blabbing to myself. What's everyone think of this $10 million thing?
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Jeez Onny, don't be so negative
haha, the rational for not allowing the editing of replies!
hahaha. my comment before was not only distracting, but also not funny. if you are interested, it basically involved posting this annotated screenshot of the most popular stories on cnn at the time i read the article bill posted.
I don't know dude, those annotations are pretty great.
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