A Marketplace for Child Labor
Why?
- As a parent, you might want to help you child learn something new and value working and earning money.
- As a child, you might also want the same.
- As an employer, you can get a motivated worker to do your simpler (or maybe complicated or specialized knowledge) jobs for a lower cost.
- Every young generation is better than their parents’ generation (their potential employer) in some things. Today this seems to be mobile and social. Make use of their expertise.
How?
An online marketplace, where children (with their parents’ involvement and approval) can search for job listings and apply for the job. Employers can post new job listings and choose from the young applicants. These can be a one-time project or a small job, or a continuous working relationship.
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Political, Moral and Other Preferences Filter for Your News Consumption
Why?
You just don’t want to see all those irritating news items. The ones that are making you angry because of their stupidity and their lack of understanding what is true and right.
How?
Have an intelligent filter built into the news app (or Facebook) that you tell all your biases to. You teach the filter what irritates you politically, morally and any other conceptual subject of irritation. The filter should be intelligent enough to understand the content of the news and not show it if it is deemed irritating for you.
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Learn Business Lessons From the Great Military Battles of the Past
Why?
Many military battles have hidden lessons the can be applied to business today. It’s in the leader’s thinking, the planning and execution.
How?
A book telling the stories of these battles and what can we learn from each one.
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Add Mind Development Gain Measurement to Running Apps
Why?
There is some research that shows running enhances your brain by creating new stem cells.
How?
Just like estimating calories burnt currently present in most running apps, there could be a function that determines based on your activity and personal data, how much your brain has “gained” from the activity.
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News Based Fictional Daily Short Stories
Why?
The news is an excellent source for ideas. As people already know about the news item, it might be easier to “sell” them on reading the short story.
How?
“The Fictional Times,” a website where you can read great short stories about today’s news.
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