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Committees 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 f
by osullivj 9y ago
Committees 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.