Image via WikipediaThere are 1.4B people living below the $1.25 poverty line and at current pace of mobile phones penetration, even the poorest people will soon own a mobile phone. Even a basic mobile phone enables somebody to receive a problem, to post a solution and to get a payment. If we would be able to map important problems to a large number of people, reduce them to small cogs in a humongous analytic machine, and harvest a solution, everyone would benefit.
Just like Zynga has stormed the world by social gaming, some future start-up might fundamentally change the lives of hundreds millions of poorest people in the world for the better by social problem solving, earning billions along the way.
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It is almost 15 years since Kasparov lost against Deep Blue. I think it is time for human race to take back supremacy in chess by intelligently harnessing our brain power. I know I would be most thrilled to take part in such a match.
