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Makes me wonder, what could we do, or what could current organizations do to recreate that environment of research and creativity in today's (and tomorrow's) wo
by imrehg 9y ago
Makes me wonder, what could we do, or what could current organizations do to recreate that environment of research and creativity in today's (and tomorrow's) world? Also, what do you do in your own life (if any) to create that sort context that is conductive to this kind of creativity?
- osullivj 9y agoCommittees impose compromises and conditions on funding, so govt or public company money won't work, as Kay points out. It must be pvt money, like the Medicis funding the renaissance. Something like the Gates Foundation. It could be a prestige project for Bezos or Zuck.
- ricardobeat 9y agoIsn't this framing of for-profit (prestige is a kind of profit) part of the problem he describes?
- discreteevent 9y agoDARPA was government though
- MaysonL 9y agoAnd DARPA is nowhere near as good as ARPA was.
- Joeri 9y agoThe recipe from the article should still work: Hire a bunch of smart people, give them advance funding for 5 years without strings attached, tell them to build the future without specifying what that means. From a personal view I have plenty of ideas for things never built before, but I lack the time and energy to do it after hours and I can almost never fit it into the scope of my professional work. Sometimes this makes me sad.
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