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I’ve been sitting on this one for a while. It’s topical. It’s relevant… it’s time.
Here goes: the best idea I have ever had, or am likely ever to have. My solution to the airport carry-on luggage crisis. I think you will agree it leverages America’s strength in information technology in an exciting and entirely novel way.
- When you get to the airport, an attendant helps you take inventory of every item you have with you.
- This inventory is entered into a database.
- You are matched up - in real time - with another person at your destination who has approximately the same stuff.
- When you reach your destination, you take that person’s stuff. They in turn will take yours, which you have thoughtfully left behind for them.
This plan would entail a number of additional benefits:
- Lower air fares and lessened climate change from diminished fuel use.
- No point in asking whether you have had your things with you at all times: nobody will have.