Hello /r/Futurology, Federico Pistono here after my last visit, (July 2014 AMA : http://redd.it/2bmnt0)

Each year, corporate leaders, philanthropists, heads of innovation and XPRIZE Trustees gather for a multi-day Visioneering workshop to brainstorm, debate, and prioritize which of the world's Grand Challenges might be solved through incentivized prize competition.

This year’s Visioneering takes place May 7-8 in California, where attendees compete with one another to design and pitch innovative, incentivized prize concepts across a variety of Grand Challenge areas in the hopes that theirs would become the next XPRIZE launched. (The $10M Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE was one such past winner that emerged from a Visioneering workshop.)

Reddit’s /r/Futurology community is the largest Future(s) Studies forum in the world. It is full of the bold and audacious, the far-seeing, and even the revolutionary.

This year I am leading the Future of Work team, so here's a crazy idea:

We're challenging /r/Futurology to help design the next $10 million prize on the Future of Work, which will be submitted to the Visioneering meeting of innovation leaders in L.A. in hopes that it will become the next XPRIZE launched.

Context on the Future of Work Category

As much as 50% of jobs in the US and Europe are at risk of being lost to automation in the next decade or two. What are the risks and opportunities created by technological unemployment? How will we prepare a workforce when jobs are scarcer, require more skill, and people work and live for decades longer than they used to? What are the opportunities to make work more rewarding and enjoyable? How can XPRIZE competitions ease this transition in society?

Rules are simple

1. Design a clear, audacious, yet achievable, $10 million XPRIZE on the Future of Work. Here's the guidelines.
2. The bottom line is this: BOLD AND AUDACIOUS GOAL, WINNABLE BY A SMALL TEAM, REASONABLE TIME FRAME.
3. Submissions are open today, May 4th 2015, until midnight, UTC

I will personally bring the top ideas from /r/Futurology with me at VISIONEERING and share them with the world's leaders. Let's see what the brightest minds of these 2.9 millions Reddittors can come up with.

--Federico Pistono

Additional info and help for you.

2012 winner pitch

Ed U phone - which became the Global Learning XPRIZE A $15 million global competition to empower 800 million children basic literacy and numeracy skills in 18 months using only a software that can run on a low-end Android smartphone or tablet.

Resources

• Background info on XPRIZE Visioneering (link)
• Video presentation (link)

*** UPDATE: 5:22PM UTC.***

Thank you all for the great response so far! I see some very good suggestions, and although I have my idea of what the XPRIZE should be I didn't want to influence you too much, and instead leave the creativity flow.

However, I see that many suggestions are OFF TOPIC!. This is the Future of Work XPRIZE design, so please keep it relevant. Million of truck, taxi, and bus drivers, people working in retail stores, hotels, airports, factories, construction sites, lawyers, journalists, nurses, etc. are going to lose their job. It's not a question of if, but rather when, and re-skilling/ education aren't going to solve it, not fast enough.

Ideas need to approach the problem at the system level.

*** UPDATE: 22:40PM UTC.***

Holy Galaxy, we're hitting 1,000 comments! I think this might be one of the most engaged discussions in the history of /r/Futurology. I'm extending the submissions until midnight Pacific Time to allow those on different time zones to have their voice heard.

*** UPDATE: May 5th ***

Thank you all, boarding a plane for LA now, will bring your ideas along.

Live long and prosper \//,

--f

No mercy.

Damn straight.