Google wants to fund The Next Big Thing, and invites you to submit it.
They expect hundreds of ideas, will pick 100 for the public to vote
on,

I put in my idea that the critical missing piece of One Laptop Per
Child is the infrastructure of renewable electricity and broadband
wireless Internet to get all of the children's laptops hooked up
together. In this way they can access not only the educational riches
available on the Internet, but each other as well.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/project-10100.html

We are looking for a trimtab to turn the rudder to steer the ship.
(Buckminster Fuller, The Trimtab Effect) The best ideas are those that
we can get going with a modest amount of money, to affect the greatest
possible number of people for the better. Google proposes several
areas, such as health, education, opportunity, and so on. The best
ideas will lead to advances on more than one of these.

Everybody here has been thinking about what the world needs most, and
the most effective ways to make those things happen. Let us put our
ideas up together, and talk about the synergies among them. Please go
to the site and write your answers to their questions offline. Post
them here, and we will discuss them.

In other news, the bailout bill failed in the US House of
Representatives this mor
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