Project 10^100: Tell Google How You Want To Change The World
Sep 27, 2008 Around the Word, Fun, IT
Did you notice something on Google homepage today? Take a look (click to enlarge):
“Project 10^100: Tell Google how you want to change the world”. Upon clicking the link, you will be brought to this page (click to enlarge):
On that page, it is written:
Project 1010 is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.
In simple words, it is a campaign, or competition by Google, asking people to offer theirs ideas to help other people. Quoted from the same site:
Why this project?
Never in history have so many people had so much information, so many tools at their disposal, so many ways of making good ideas come to life. Yet at the same time, so many people, of all walks of life, could use so much help, in both little ways and big.
In the midst of this, new studies are reinforcing the simple wisdom that beyond a certain very basic level of material wealth, the only thing that increases individual happiness over time is helping other people.
In other words, helping helps everybody, helper and helped alike.
The question is: what would help? And help most?
At Google, we don’t believe we have the answers, but we do believe the answers are out there. Maybe in a lab, or a company, or a university — but maybe not.
Maybe the answer that helps somebody is in your head, in something you’ve observed, some notion that you’ve been fiddling with, some small connection you’ve noticed, some old thing you have seen with new eyes.
If you have an idea that you believe would help somebody, we want to hear about it. We’re looking for ideas that help as many people as possible, in any way, and we’re committing the funding to launch them. You can submit your ideas and help vote on ideas from others. Final idea selections will be made by an advisory board.
Good luck, and may those who help the most win.
This campaign sounds very meaningful to me. So, do you have any ideas in your mind? How to help other people? Go to Project 10 to the 100th to find out more details now.
Tags: competition, Google, Project 10 to the 100th
MacBook Air hacked in 2 minutes
Mar 28, 2008 IT
Two minutes? That is fast! Through Safari loophole some more. But well, that was on the 2nd day of the competition. So I guess all of them failed on the 1st day. Not too bad.
CNet News: MacBook Air hacked in security contest
Tags: Apple, CNet, competition, hacker, MacBook Air
