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suppose that all of the world's scientific and engineering researchers migrated into a single new country, Researchistan, with plenty of research funding. imagi
by HillaryBriss 9y ago
suppose that all of the world's scientific and engineering researchers migrated into a single new country, Researchistan, with plenty of research funding. imagine further that all of their results were published in public journals.
finally, imagine that the rest of the world's people, though not researchers themselves, had access to all of the research journals.
does that arrangement in and of itself determine which country or countries will have the highest per-capita GDP?
- Razengan 9y agoThe idea of a research-focused technocracy is something I often fantasize about as well. The sad thing is, while most of the world remains the way it is, they WILL need a military to safeguard them, and sooner or later, whoever provides their protection will get to dictate what they research and that research's applications. Maybe if such a establishment was founded on the Moon, or even Mars, and can grow their own food etc.?
- JumpCrisscross 9y ago> does that arrangement in and of itself determine which country or countries will have the highest per-capita GDP? Scientists and engineers, in my experience, cross-pollinate. As much as the dream of distance-less communication abounds, this cross-pollination exhibits geographic clustering. Defense research spending in Massachussetts and the Bay Area spawned Route 128 and the Silicon Valley, respectively.