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Launch a live digital-television channel on which a    Editor’s note:
                       panel of experts discuss which television show people  This idea proved so
                       should be watching at that moment in time on any of thepopular during the
                       other available channels.                              editing of this book
                                                                              that a company was
                                Chas Bayfield                                 launched by certain
                                                                              members of our
13913February2001                                                             review committee to
                                                                              make it happen. Now
                                                                              a programme called

                                                                             Flipside.

                       Launch an umbrella-sharing scheme in a major city.    Editor’s note:
                       Companies would be invited to sponsor the             Useful as umberellas
                       manufacture and distribution of thousands of          are, this idea would
                       umbrellas, which would carry their advertising. The   ease the frustrations
                       public would be encouraged to take and deposit the    of owning them on a
                       umbrellas at public places, train stations, offices orpermanent basis (ie.
                                                                             storing them when
140restaurantsasrequired.                                                    wet, losing them and
                                                                             carrying them when
                                                                             it’s not actually

David Owen                                                                   raining).

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