(dot) Good Idea
Welcome to "(dot) Good Idea". This is an "Advent" blog where I post what is almost a good idea every day leading up to Christmas. You are welcome to use the good ideas, if you are mad enough, all I ask for is a small share of the profits. :-)
Sunday, 6 December 2009...
Sim Air Traffic Control (dot)goodidea
Today we are using crowd sourcing to do everything. Be it reviewing restaurants, processing documents, or even creating and moderating reference, we are conning the general public to doing the work for us. There are plenty of things that we could be crowd sourcing but are not yet though, and this is where Sim Air Traffic Control (dot)goodidea comes in.
Do you remember the computer game Sim City where you acted as a city counsel running the city? You decided that to build where, and what taxes to charge, and if you got it right you ended up with a great city to run.
Now extend this idea to air traffic control when the users command and control aircraft. Why do this? Well the people who are good at it can advance the level two, where instead of simulating the air traffic they control real aeroplanes. This reduces the need for expensive air traffic controllers.
I know what you are thinking, and no we would not let the user know they were controlling real planes. This is so they will not prioritise planes with there friends on. Initially the game will be PC based, but I would hope to have an iPhone version out within weeks.
There is also scope to take this idea further by expanding the platform to rail transit or nuclear power stations. What could possibly go wrong here? It's a win win win. Are you in?
Do you remember the computer game Sim City where you acted as a city counsel running the city? You decided that to build where, and what taxes to charge, and if you got it right you ended up with a great city to run.
Now extend this idea to air traffic control when the users command and control aircraft. Why do this? Well the people who are good at it can advance the level two, where instead of simulating the air traffic they control real aeroplanes. This reduces the need for expensive air traffic controllers.
I know what you are thinking, and no we would not let the user know they were controlling real planes. This is so they will not prioritise planes with there friends on. Initially the game will be PC based, but I would hope to have an iPhone version out within weeks.
There is also scope to take this idea further by expanding the platform to rail transit or nuclear power stations. What could possibly go wrong here? It's a win win win. Are you in?
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