silicon valley
What is the best example you can think of where a government has made a long term strategic investment in a particular (preferably unlikely) future outcome? Did it pay off?
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Was that a government funded national strategic investment?
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from what I've read, the fact that silicon valley as we know it sprang up the way it did was largely an accident of a long term consistent and big spend on defence research
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Consistent long term tactical actions do have a tendency to lead to emergent strategic victories.
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Manhattan project? Panama canal? TGV? Imperial Canal (?) and Great Wall of China? Roman road system?
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Good ones! I had a few of those already. :-)
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France's big bet on nuclear power in 1974
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Oh, good one. What do you think, was that a good bet or a bad one? I'm tempted to put it in the good column.
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Yeah at this point nuke power is at least sneaking into "necessary evil", so "good, so far"?
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Does Arpanet count?
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Yes, it does. But it's also a sufficiently well known example (to me) that it's not what I'm looking for. :-)
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I could give a contender for the _worst_ example in the way waterways in northern Sweden were straightened and widened (from their natural courses) in the 50s to help floating lumber. Lumber started being mainly transported by road/rail just years later,.
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What's long term? 5 years? 20?
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Let's say >5a; otherwise it's kind of "election cycle horizon".
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So, something like social security in FR ? If you want more failures, then basically, any investment the French Governement did in tech (minitel for instance).
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Oh, and Airbus. I forgot about planes. But it's tricky because it involves multiple gov, so...
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marshall plan?
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High speed broadband internet in South Korea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_South_Korea …
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Apollo program? E-gov in Estonia ("punk policy making")?
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