Getting my fill of faith in the future: serving today on a mind-bogglingly kind panel, selecting promising scientists for the @SchmidtFellows.
One conclusion: venture capitalists have much to learn from scientists on how to bet on the future.
I’ve read it, and it’s great, but not what I was imagining here...
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In particular, it basically stops just as we established the sprawling edifice that is Postwar US Science.
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It is also only one research avenue / cluster. The top-down view is how the finite resource of money gets allocated? There is a Pulitzer, or something, in this book...
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Would love to read a history of this. Who in government decides what areas of science to fund, and why -- the logic, fashion, randomness, and politics of it all.
Calling