Editor’s note: This article was first published in February 2012. Google’s Solve for X site was news at that time, having just officially opened.
Google has just officially opened a website called Solve for X, where anyone can submit an idea, however crazy it may be, for changing or improving the big problems facing the planet. You can propose a solution to hunger, pollution, the overexploitation of natural resources… and many other things you might come up with.
It doesn’t matter who you are or what you do. You don’t have to be a scientist. You just have to say what you want to change and explain what kind of technology or mechanism could be used to bring about that change. If your idea doesn’t sound coherent, don’t worry: it will be very welcome. Perhaps in 10 years it could be carried out.
We don’t know what led the search giant to open a site like this, but the solution to hundreds of the problems facing the planet today will surely come from a crazy idea put forward by an ordinary person.
So if you have something to say, now is your chance… who knows?
Featured image: Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr.
