You know those company events, and the companies that
organize those events, right? Here's an idea for an event
staged by these "event organizing companies" - The
"Halfbakery event".
Every country / state / group / family has people who
love
to show off how innovative and inventive they
are (The
Russians WERE the first to space, the Chinese WERE the
first to make fire crackers, the Persians WERE the first
to
play Chess, the Lebanese WERE the first to invent the
short alphabet, Arab merchants WERE the first to bring
the
zero from India, and to discover gasoline, the Greeks
WERE the first to think of a round world, the Arapaho
WERE the first to understand that we have to listen to
nature, and the Bushmen WERE the first to figure out
how
to avoid white man's stupidity almost to the end of the
20th centurty).
Well one of the main Israeli newspapers had this thing
not
long ago about how smart and innovative we are, and to
show it they opened a closed contest with each of the
editors writing their great halfbaked ideas in technology.
Not surprisingly they came up with most of the main HB
tech ideas, which sounded great to them.
I'm sure EVERY hi-tech company and most of the low-tech
too - who have these "high end" company events with
"group activities" would enjoy a good "Halfbakery Half
day". In preperation, for a week in advance, they get a
"corporate HB" - (with the possibility to move to the
global
HB if ideas are good). The company guys bash each
other,
and we get to bash them too (or help them if its really a
great idea). At the company event they choose a few
ideas
that they want to try and develop / illustrate / debate
loudly in a real room. Altogether its a "Corporate HB
Event".
Videos and results are posted as links that don't work
and
the ideas can be boned further for another month or
two,
until all workers are totally broken, never to propose any
of their ideas again, and understand that the only choice
for the rest of their life is to join
the real halfbakery and cure themselves of any elf-
fishness they ever had.
Halfbakers are invited to run these events, and propose
their own ideas, and that way you get some tech guys to
finally build the solar balloon that I was never able to
make a model of, even though it's the simplest idea,
because I always get something wrong, while the simple
Chinese made $1.5 kite from the supermarket goes
soaring high above everything else.