Which would/will you vote for? http://www.project10tothe100.com/vote.html

I voted for government transparency. I think if we could some how safely start linking voting and official political dialogue to our social networking sites, enough people wold finally start caring about politics.

More funding for engineering and science education. When schools get budget cuts that require some of their curriculum to be dropped, science programs are usually the first to take the hit. More scientists and engineers = more win!

Open source schools. Education ideally shouldn't cost even a fraction of the amount it does.
Okay maybe it's not called 'open source' per say.

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I went with driving innovation. Would definitely be nice to not have smog in Denver (potentially).

Internetized educational resources got my vote.

Nothing related to art?

I choose neither.

If I could, I'd vote for all of them, and each and every choice on the website should be part of our future goals.

But If I had to choose one, I would Make the Government more Transparent.

I'm not a politician, and I have no interest in policies and politics, but when it comes to scooping gov't information out to the media, I can list several countries. But especially China. When a gv't owns the media, the country's people suffer from lack of knowledge. And therefore, the gov't controls the country. Although it does not necessarily improves the "most" people's lives, I believe that knowledge is the most important factor in a person's life. It is the factor that gives people choices.

Other than that, the african one is an obvious one that must be done, and so are many others.
I almost picked the entrepreneur one, but its description was to business-centric for my liking,..

With respect to transparency, I would contend that the US government is in fact too transparent. I don't have time to build a full argument, but I suggest reading The Future of Freedom by Fareed Zakaria. Essentially, an open government is more easily played by lobbyists, making it in fact less serving of the people's needs.

I have voted for free internet based educational resources.

"Drive innovation in public transport" I couldn't really care about any of the other stuff. And I'm against "Create genocide monitoring and alert system"

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I agree with this, but only because the general populace is, as a whole, both ignorant and stupid.

As nice as art can be, it doesn't measurably improve anyone's life, and pouring money into the arts isn't a good way to solve any given one of the world's serious problems.


I voted for improved transportation methods. Cars are a gigantic waste of money, space, and resources... but no one seems to realize it. Think about it: how often do you actually see a full car? One out of a hundred, maybe? I'd hazard a guess that there's more cars in the United States than people, and in 25 years or so 95% of them are going to be useless as oil becomes harder and harder to reach. On top of that, our police force spends the vast majority of their time enforcing "traffic safety" because cars are also vastly more unsafe than virtually any other type of transportation.

Meanwhile, we have technology that allows trains to almost break the sound barrier that isn't being utilized... 5 times faster than you go when you're speeding on the highway. Moreover, it doesn't require any natural resources, and theoretically has the potential to reach 4000 mph. Why is anyone still driving a vehicle that has barely improved in 100 years? The switch to hybrid and smart cars is respectable, but it completely ignores the fact that cars are by nature incredibly inefficient.

I agree with putting money into science and technology, but in my opinion transportation is the most obvious place where a complete renovation of our way of life would be simple, beneficial, and in the long run incredibly cost and time saving.

You. Invent a brainwashing machine- otherwise the romance of cars will never end.

This is why I didn't go with FaZ-'s choice.

I voted for

I have to strongly disagree. Art directly improves one's quality of like plus it adds great knowledge of just about everything around you.
You need to know a lot of stuff to become an architect, a film maker, musician, painter as you have to have something on what to make your work about, you need to do researchs, investigations and you develop your mind to work more and you also develop a skill that not many people use and have, abstraction.

Dedicating funds to promote arts would give homeless people something to keep themselves occupied with, instead of grabbing a knife and mugging you, they can go to places where they'll teach them art and the work they do could easily be sold as an art piece, which provides a bit of money that'd go to whoever the piece is from. There, I solved the violence problem, want me to solve something else?

You're kidding, right?

Corbo made me lol.

I voted for 'Make educational content available online for free'. If it's high-quality, it can be used to greatly improve the lives of people worldwide as they educate themselves for much less than possible otherwise.

We already got that.
*points at wikipedia*
'Mummy, mummy, we have wikipedia, can I drop out of school now?'

'No, son, you're only 5...'

'But Mummy, it's high-quality online educational resources for free!'

'Okie, you can grow up with Granny Wiki as your teacher.'

Oh, that reminds me: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm

Just one thing: Cars aren't unsafe, it's stupid people driving that's unsafe. If drivers' licenses were regulated like pilots' licenses, the accident rates of the two would be similar.