Loading...SpaceX Hyperloop style competitions for the world’s other challenges
Inviting university students to come up with ideas that help make innovations in areas other than space travel. New ideas are needed in the fields of medicine, sustainability and the environment, so using a model similar to that devised by SpaceX could bring more minds together to solve some of the world’s current challenges.
MIT are doing their bit too. Needs Bill Gates and that Bezoz to get on board and start dishing our incentives to make the world better, gawd knows they have it good and know they should be helping more, this would be a good way to do it. Don’t expect governments or regular businesses to put the money up.
£50k has been put up to solve city problems by the surveyors in the UK there should be a single site that lists all the individual contests that each industry is putting a prize up for.
Don’t think 2021 will have a contest, so it is time others took the lead from the example and set them up for all the different things we need. like curing nasty viruses etc.
Challenge Prizes sounds like another good way to get more clever minds focussing on the problems of today.
Think Elon would be pleased others are taking the challenge on board. It’s a great idea. so is having similar contests for other things.
Weird, now the bearded Virgin overlord is going for a hyperloop now that he is having trouble getting his. already paid, customers to space.