Netflix $1 Million Offer

American Voices

October 5, 2006 | ISSUE 42•40

Netflix is currently offering $1 million to anyone who can improve its personal movie recommendations system. What do you think?

I thought Jurassic Park was pretty good. Did I win?

George Muybridge
Pest Control
I think instead they should take that million and make a movie that everybody likes, with Billy Crystal and a really cute puppy and lots of violence. Or mermaids. One or the other.

Warren Edison
Hammock Maker
This is just like the famous MacArthur Genius Grant, except, the MacArthur Genius Grant doesn’t benefit mankind in any way.

Esther Melies
Bicycle Messenger

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