I agree, I think pinning on just funding seems too reductive. There were people like David Ungar and Randy Smith doing phenomenal, pioneering work on computing environments well into the 90s, but their most revolutionary ideas weren't really picked up.
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Alan's point is that that style of funding creates a research culture, and that culture is what's necessary. Self wasn't part of a larger movement in the way that personal computng, time-sharing, AI, and the internet were.
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I think Blockchain technology in the broader scope can help solve this problem http://www.red-lang.org/2017/12/leaping-into-future-red-goes-blockchain.html …
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Agreed, we won't score those hipster points we would for waxing nostalgic about Xerox PARC and the heyday of the military-industrial complex, but cryptocurrencies have a built-in economic model that bootstraps an enormous amount of creative activity in that area of development.
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Nonprofits from time immemorial have been dealing with this issue of trying to achieve their mission while also learning to survive. Few have the luxury of endowments or “no-strings-attached” donations. A healthy balance can actually spur innovation.
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This related discussion on the funding of Fermilab provides a look at the logic and priorities in federal funding debates. If anything that debate is much more focused on the immediate and practical now. http://history.fnal.gov/testimony.html
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Yeah you need the right people. Smart people are absolutely necessary (but not sufficient) for great work to be done.
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100000000000% agree. I'll add one of my favorite pieces of empirical work that demonstrates Kay's argument for the superiority of long-term funding: https://dspace.mit.edu/openaccess-disseminate/1721.1/64640 …
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"Most don't think of the resources in our centuries as actually part of a human-made garden via inventions and cooperation, and that the garden has to be maintained and renewed."
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