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Make the publishing of anything scientific independent from Journals and freely available to anyone.
Isn't that Arxiv.org?
A better, no hassles international payment gateway (I know Paypal exists, but I am not their fan)
A better, no hassles international payment gateway (I know Paypal exists, but I am not their fan)
Take the concept of a cheap car (like the one they did in India for about 1000$) and expand. No reason cars need to cost 15000$ and up.
Online elections. Think of how many more people would actually vote in the US if it were online . The 2008 election had 63% voter turnout, which is historically high, but is nothing compared to countries like Italy with 90%. Obviously, there are huge security concerns and it would be a logistical nightmare, but that's what someone needs to solve.
If not proper elections at least a whole population simulation before the polls. That way people could express their true preferences without fearing that their vote will not count if it goes to a fringe candidate and would reassure them that they're not as few as regular polls and eventual results usually show.
Isn't that exactly what instant-runoff voting solves?
Education for makers.
A practical, robust method for separating essential complexity from accidental complexity in software engineering. Trevor Blackwell has written about something like this: http://tlb.org/busywork.html
Thanks for the pointer. Basically, Trevor wants the distraction of low-level tweaking so he can think about the high-level problem. That's the weakest argument for low-level languages I've ever heard. But Python fits the bill: Python for high-level, C libs for performance and low-level tweaking.