Friday 21 August 2009 11:08:29 am

Well, after an exiting run I woke this morning to have a look at the announced short list of contenders and runners up’s. I don’t think there are words enough to express my surprise at the absolute lack of anything remotely close to originality, business viability or something resembling sensibility in 90% of the ideas short-listed today. All I can say to myself is that this is run via a television network and I most certainly should have know better than to expect sense to be at the forefront of such competitions.

With that said I do hope that in the future someone or some entity will run a similar event for the generation of innovation, creativity and viable ideas that just might make our world a better place to live in today

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Friday 21 August 2009 11:49:48 am

Maybe I have a different understanding of NEW ideas or ENTREPRENEURSHIP, but to me the short list is quite a surprise too. Particular business is existing since years. Business sense, quality, originality and popularity of the ideas in this competition seem to have no influence. On some of the ideas shortlisted no one bothered to comment.

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Friday 21 August 2009 12:08:09 pm

Having seen the short list, I must admit that I am surprised. I would have put my money on ideas that were designed to help the environment be profitable, somewhat original and definately easy to market.

Now I am wondering if this was a real competetion or just a road show.

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Friday 21 August 2009 12:48:05 pm

I think it is very clear what happens when the marketing monster that today’s society has created leaves dock to destinations unknown. I would assume that too actually change the world for a better place or too make a difference in, for or around the status quo one would need to light a fire under our understanding and definition of what we tend to call society.

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Friday 21 August 2009 4:12:38 pm

All entries than even hinted to have a significant climate change impact, those that touched taboo subjects like geoengineering (mitigation through biosphere carbon cycle management, like biochar) were ignored. Why?

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Friday 21 August 2009 6:09:46 pm

CNBC- you have underwhelmed us!

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Sunday 23 August 2009 2:45:39 am

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Tuesday 25 August 2009 10:57:24 pm

what politically insensitive terms was that??? I just told the truth that the judges were likely so incompetent that they just looked among those that were voted highest and when they had picked 10 through no particularly intelligent process they stopped looking. so they missed those brilliant participants who petty competitors have voted down.
if you look at the ratings of the 10 selected you will see this theory is dreadfully likely to be true. such amazing incompetence and indifference.
as a result they chose one who makes handbags out of used firehoses instead of a car that uses 20 times less energy than typical small cars http://www.goodentrepreneur.com/T...easy-quick-freedom-from-fossil-fuels. A complete fluff project was chosen over one that could actually change the world. And so are many of the 10 chosen. Not one with a chance to make a real difference.

it is a travesty of indifference and incompetence, one that I sadly predicted with significant certainty.
I'm sure this post will be deleted as well using whatever lie that comes to their minds to hide from the truth.

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Tuesday 01 September 2009 9:10:29 pm

Today you are looking at a re-generation of old perceptions, old views and a few realistic innovative ideas, you can take a political view, a conservative one or a radical one, however nothing will change the fact that as we continue to develop our technological capability our general mass mentality seems to slide or indeed seems to simply stay in place.

It always seems a bit strange how our bearing coasts towards another gadget or another sociological solution. I really do wonder when it will become fashionable or indeed a correct term both for the institutions on this planet or people as a whole to seek which is ours by right of birth.

I speak simply of a thing we all use on a daily basis, a thing that inspires not to mention a mechanism that can confound ourselves. Seeking this thing we like to call innovation, we continually ask ourselves “Can I make money?” In another world, in another place people would look at our behavior in a different light.

Granted in our society Cash is king, but as increasing awareness arises from our selves, it will become increasingly difficult for the greater corporations in this world to do business simply for the fact of fashionable marketing terms like “Green”

All things considered I implore the intellectual community to tackle the true beast, an animal that has been long in waiting, mainly ourselves. Too be more Intelligent, capacity, cognitive, emotion, memory too name a few.

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