If you’ve ever sat through an intense math class like trig, or even a simpler math-based subject like algebra, sometimes the numbers plugged in to that painful-looking formula don’t necessarily constitute X. And this is a very frustrating thing, especially if you weren’t graciously born with the “math-side” of the brain.
Well, the same could be said for solving our world’s hardest problems: sometimes we don’t have the resources to get “X”; sometimes the proposed technologies that would need require something that is “out there,” where costs outweigh the reality of it happening.
But Google’s latest project “Solve for X” based in their “X Labs,” was created to “solve X” so to speak, so we can “get big stuff done.” Basically, the X Labs will be a “place where the curious to go to hear and discuss radical technology ideas for solving global problems. Radical in the sense that the audaciousness of the proposals makes them sound like science fiction. And radical in the sense that there is some real technology breakthrough on the horizon to give us all hope that these ideas could really be brought to life.”
And much like Microsoft’s aim at filling the opportunity divide by funding worldwide projects that have the same goals of solving global problems at large, Google wants to enable these ideas, bringing the once seeming “impossible solutions” to a possible reality.
The public launch of Solve for X has not been officially determined, but on the site you can sign up for an e-mail notification of when we can start hypothesizing this “moonshot” thinking.
(via The Verge & Panda Daily)
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