Solve for X: Google’s TED to Solve Global Problems?

[comp@ddict]

A couple of months ago, Google quietly launched a new platform whose thoughts quickly faded from everyone’s mind. In fact, few people even know about it’s existence. Enter, Solve for X. This platform can be very well called Google’s attempt at a TED.

Solve for X is a place to hear and discuss radical technology ideas for solving global problems. Radical in the sense that the solutions could help billions of people. 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.

This combination of things – a huge problem to solve, a radical solution for solving it, and the breakthrough technology to make it happen – is the essence of a moonshot.



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[Vyom]

Could prove a breakthrough. Could be Google's attempt to get their hands dirty in new ventures. But with the lack of enough publicity, it could very well be just an experiment which died even before it's truly born.

Nevertheless the idea itself looks promising, despite its redundancies with the TED.

[abhidev]

TED just showcases new ideas...m not sure if it does something to get that idea any further to a large scale...

Solve for X would probably contribute in bringing those ideas to life to a larger population