Geeks On a Plane Proposed To Solve Global Tech Skills Crisis

judgecorp writes "British Airways' Ungrounded project proposes to shut 100 Silicon Valley 'gamechangers' in a trans-Atlantic plane and ask them to solve the world's tech skills crisis during a 12-hour flight to London. On arrival, the passengers will head into a conference where they will present their ideas to, among others, the UN. From the article: 'Ungrounded, as the project is called, will bring 100 “innovators” (Silicon Valley CEOs, thinkers and venture capitalists) on a private BA flight from San Francisco to London. During the flight, they will take part in a “global hack” run by Ideo, a design firm which has made mice for Microsoft and Apple.'"

Comments

Don't forget the free and open source people too

[kthreadd]

Put at least Stallman, ESR and Torvalds on that plane.

Is this the 'B' Ark?

[Anonymous Coward]

The rest will follow, right?

(Captcha: wartime)

Flight redirected

[mwvdlee]

Flight redirected... to india!

This could work

[sjames]

As long as they also put plenty of venomous snakes on the plane. They'll need more than one flight to cut out all of the deadwood at the top, but it's got potential.