Project 10 to the 100 remerges from the depths of Google (Vote until the 8th of October)

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About 1 year ago Google announced a seemingly interesting little project called 10^100, which happens to be the number that the name Google comes from, correctly spelt Googol. In any case, the project involved people everywhere submitting ideas to change the world and Google dedicated 10 Million dollars to help get some of the projects off the ground.

At the time of its announcement a public voting stage was to occur after several weeks of review from google. Things did not go according to plan. They received more ideas than the had expected, more than 150,000 in fact, from all over the world. In any case this slowed the project significantly and the voting stage was delayed; for almost 1 year.

Today Google has announced that voting is open however on review of the 16 ideas one can vote on, one notices that each are quite broad and each are relatively obvious ones. The kind of thing you might think of walking home late at night thinking about how you want to change the world. (Does anyone else do that?)

So Google encourages us to vote before the 8th of October. It will be interesting to see how the public responds to these kinds of ideas and perhaps it will be good indication of an area to concentrate some effort in the future.

Go Vote! http://www.project10tothe100.com/vote.html

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