The X-Prize

No, it’s got nothing to do with Simon Cowell et al.

Re the following links…

http://blog.longnow.org/2008/09/15/peter-diamandis-long-term-x-prizes/(link is external)
http://www.xprize.org/x-prizes/propose-an-x-prize(link is external)

…what do you think of the concept of offering cash prizes for things like coming up with a cure for AIDS, eradicating poverty for more than 90% of the human population, etc? & offering these prizes alongside such relatively trivial things as inventing a flying car or mapping the ocean floor?

& furthermore, getting those creative juices working, what other challenges would you like to see an X-Prize being offered for?

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"the progenitor"(link is external)
"the art of tea"(link is external)
"that's an odd courgette"(link is external)