> Government funding would just result in boondoggles like the old national supercomputer centers from the 1980s. I don't know if I totally disagree, but I thi

> Government funding would just result in boondoggles like the old national supercomputer centers from the 1980s. I don't know if I totally disagree, but I think it's fair to point out that one of the most society-changing inventions of the past 50 years came out of one of these "boondoggles": NCSA Mosaic, which basically led to Netscape: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)