I am in a similar boat, trying to hone in on a topic for an independent research project. At the moment I am considering researching which industries might be

I am in a similar boat, trying to hone in on a topic for an independent research project. At the moment I am considering researching which industries might be disrupted by crowdsourcing similar to how stock photography and language translation have. If you go down the distributed human computation route, let me know as we may have some areas to compare research findings.