Yes that’s an interesting thought. I agree that science and tech needs to be open source, but it also needs to be funded to become a reality. And I’m not sure how to make both things possible?
Yes that’s an interesting thought. I agree that science and tech needs to be open source, but it also needs to be funded to become a reality. And I’m not sure how to make both things possible?
In an ideal world, governments would admit that diseases and ailments are a human-wide issue and treat them as such. And the average citizen would have an ideological + financial investment in new tech. A lot of research is already taxpayer-funded, but people never hear about it or get to see it.
I don’t know how we get to higher scientific literacy and less nationalism, but that’s what the humanities are for!
Ahhh, so then this research would be government funded? That could work if the government was well funded (and I have some thoughts about taxation coming up.)
Capitalism has done exceedingly well at raising funds, I wonder if it could be tweaked to the benefit of humanity (the Patagonia model is an interesting one!)
True! It seems like it’s never a true lack of money that’s the problem, but what the money is used for and who oversees it. And that disconnect is present everywhere- Gobel had a point about NGOs being great at raising money but terrible at fixing anything.
Yes that’s an interesting thought. I agree that science and tech needs to be open source, but it also needs to be funded to become a reality. And I’m not sure how to make both things possible?
In an ideal world, governments would admit that diseases and ailments are a human-wide issue and treat them as such. And the average citizen would have an ideological + financial investment in new tech. A lot of research is already taxpayer-funded, but people never hear about it or get to see it.
I don’t know how we get to higher scientific literacy and less nationalism, but that’s what the humanities are for!
Ahhh, so then this research would be government funded? That could work if the government was well funded (and I have some thoughts about taxation coming up.)
Capitalism has done exceedingly well at raising funds, I wonder if it could be tweaked to the benefit of humanity (the Patagonia model is an interesting one!)
True! It seems like it’s never a true lack of money that’s the problem, but what the money is used for and who oversees it. And that disconnect is present everywhere- Gobel had a point about NGOs being great at raising money but terrible at fixing anything.
Exactly! The government doesn’t appear to be very efficient with their money. But a business that has to be profitable is!