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> Wow, I hope you're not in charge of the Earth's innovation budget.

I don't want ANYONE in charge of the "innovation budget". Innovation budgets gets us things like the Soviet Union, or SEMATECH http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEMATECH or MITI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MITI

That's my whole point: good ideas bubble up from the bottom with tens of millions of people using local knowledge and refining and playing with existing ideas: not intellectuals working from the top-down.



Or ARPA:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA

Or CERN: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN#Computer_science

Or the South Korean tech and steel industries, or...




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