> 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 thin

> 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEMATECH or MITI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.