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ThinkCycle: Solving World Problems With A Cluster of Brains

Posted by timothy on from the hope-some-good-comes-out-of-it dept.

eaglemoon writes: "ThinkCycle is an MIT Media Lab project to apply SETI@Home principles to design problems for underserved communities. Only, intead of donating spare cpu cycles, you donate spare 'think cycles.' Their aim is to build a community of designers, inventors and innovators that want to collaborate on developing novel solutions to some what intractable problems like clean water access , cholera treatment and appropriate shelters. Their aim is to encourage an "open source" ethos for tough design and technology challenges."

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  1. Can you imagine.... by matth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A beowolf cluster of these?

    Sorry just had to :)

  2. Wait by blues5150 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "....a community of designers, inventors and innovators that want to collaborate on developing novel solutions..." The community has already been establised, it's called the Open Source community!

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  3. Microsoft strongly opposes this! by toupsie · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    According to a press agent for Microsoft, MIT's project "ThinkCycle" is nothing more than a smoke screen for anti-capitalistic "Viral Thinking". Microsoft has long established thinking is best done for multinational corporations that are engaged in the accumulation of capital. Thinking outside of the confines of a corporation with a group is nothing more than anti-capitalism. Projects seeking to provide clean water and the treatment of cholera are just pretty window dressing of this Anti-American activity.

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  4. OT: Your sig (WPFL) by Rupert · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Doesn't seem to be much information there. Of course, since the first team on the list is the Houston Energy, perhaps they have gone the way of Enron?

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