On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 01:24:08PM +0000, '[email protected]' via Everything List wrote: > Oh, Professor, I have zero opposition to us the taxpayer spending trillions on > R&D for both basic research and technology. I do note with deep concern that > trillions over the years has been wasted. Unfocused discovery of wonder is > terrfifc, but human need supercedes unrelated stuff in my opinion. How much is > enough, and when does x cross y for a return on investment? I am not a young > man and have been waiting 45 years for fusion, either magnetic or inertial > confinement, eh? Space travel will benefit, but again 20 years? > > What seems more likely in a few yers is pervoskite solar, possibly deep > georthermal (maybe), and we could've developed fail-safe fission, and JC's MSR > reactors. Medicine? That's the Cash Cow for R&D and seems underfunded, and > uncoordinated. I'd have used US Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's method of income > engancement for All US citizens, by giving US taxpayers the right to donate 1% > of their taxes to stocks that have R&D behind them, say medicines? Again, ROI. > Just an idea...
You mean everyday citizens decide where the money's spent? This would have a different bias to the above, vulnerable to social media amplified influence. Probably not too dissimilar to politicians deciding, just with somewhat less formal lobbying methods. I seem to recall distributing funds by random lottery might be the least worst option of them all. At very least, scientists/academics would not need to be spending all their time writing non-productive research grants that they have to do now. > > Ciao! > Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders [email protected] http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/aAV7xt96nxvKxf6P%40zen.
