Education:
Vocational retraining effectiveness for work for 45+ people. I am not one of them, but there seems to be more and more left behind with no strategy&#x2F;known good answer. I personally can&#x27;t figure out how to teach and elevate people to do good work so it tends to be they end up being a long term on social security&#x2F;unemployment&#x2F;draining savings. So the question would be:<p>- What are the most effective ways to retrain people of that age? I don&#x27;t know of any techniques to motivate people that are not lifelong learners to acquire skills. Is it a demographic thing? This can be warped into &#x27;what&#x27;s the best way to make expert users of that category&#x27; that leads to gamifaction and other things.<p>Market study:
- What is the barrier to entry to start businesses as a platform?<p>I feel there isn&#x27;t enough innovation in pooling the resources to make starting a business. Yes money can solve a lot of problems, but how do you make it so there is a shared stack of resources of logistics, space, pension&#x2F;benefits to let businesses of &lt;$1MM gross revenue (basically cottage industries). How do we mitigate the risk of the individual to try? What is the best settings for a particular region to accelerate the progress? What can we remove from the equation to increase the growth of wealth of individuals?<p>Interoperability:
This is something that I was partially pursuing as a research topic- how can we make the transfer of technical information (CAD drawings, models) easier to convert between. A UNIX system works wonderfully because of how piping works, but for highly complex program there is not a wonderful model to build such pipelining without serious grunge work. A lot of value gets lost plugging these things together, and sometimes this work is done by very nontechnical people. There is a lot of work for this in message processing but less in the context of file processing, but really it&#x27;s a knowledge representation and transfer problem.