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Fictional Town "Eureka" To Become Real?
Zarath writes "The fictional town of Eureka (from the TV series by the same name) is going to potentially become a real life town as the University of Queensland, in Australia, plans to build a multibillion-dollar 'brain city' dedicated to science and research. The city, hoping to hold at least 10,000 people, is looking to attract 4,500 of the brightest scientists from around the world to live and work there. The city is planned to be built west of the city of Brisbane, in Queensland. While not funded by the Department of Defense (like the [city of the] TV series), the potential for such a community is very interesting and exciting."
Fictional Town "Eureka" to Becomes Real?
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My work here is dung.
but we call ours Los Alamos...
A town entirely full of science geeks ?
Well, at least they shouldn't expect a very high birth rate...
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
I thought nerds preferred the cold dark of their parents basements or garages, to any kind of socialization? This will be an awkward experiment in itself. I'll bet you that only pseudo-nerds get in and they spend all the grant money on Warcraft gold, and sheep pr0n.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
Sounds like funs!
...keep all of our best and brightest in one location. What could possibly go wrong?
the research triangle park
Because it is fairly isolated. If it gets blown up, space-time torn, or radiated, there is less chance of contamination to other continents.
One of the most interesting decisions in Soviet science was the establishment of Akademgorodok, an enclave outside Novosibirsk dedicated entirely to scientists (see e.g. Josephson's New Atlantis Revisited published by Princeton University Press). I don't understand why that wasn't more popular in Western countries. Maybe sciences move ahead when you give scientists peace, a sense of respect and dignity, and ability to manage their own work. Of course, generous funding is essential, lest it all go down the tubes.
As an Aus citizen, let me just say that I'll be happy to stay in NSW.
Mainly to avoid the dolphins with lasers they might create.
www.purevolume.com/martyd
So... you want intelligent people to move to Australia?
This, being the same Australia that's introducing filtering and censorship to its entire Internet?
Yeah, good luck with that... Oh, and enjoy your forthcoming Dark Age.
I haven't seen the show, so forgive me if the writers have handled my objections in some clever fashion in one of the episodes, but..
I don't see the upside to this, it's easier now than ever before for people to collaborate remotely, negating much of the need for being in the same physical location.
I do see a downside to this, putting all our intellectual eggs in one basket makes a pretty attractive target for terrorists, whether they be Islamic, Luddite, or some other group in the future that isn't particularly keen on progress or reason as a means of dealing with reality.
The city is planned to be built west of the city of Brisbane, in Queensland.
Instead of building it west of Brisbane, they should build it east of Brisbane, where they can be free from outside influence.
"Waste not one watt!" - CZ
I seem to recall these sorts of things ending badly for the inhabitants when gov't funding dried up after the collapse of the USSR. Hopefully, Australia's economy can keep something like this afloat...
-B
Ash and Hickory, straight-grained and true, make excellent bludgeons, dandy for the cudgeling of vegetarians.
Sounds a bit like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akademgorodok except actually open and international. (also not in Siberia)
Kinda like Akademgorodok?
I claim first use of "Error No. 0B" - or "No. 0B error." It'll be the new ID 10T!
It's not a typo in the headline, it was submitted by "Tokey" from Metalocalypse.
Does anybody else think this is an extremely bad idea? Let's put all the best and brightest minds in ONE PLACE...
I didn't RTFA but did any of these asshats consult the best and brightest minds before they decided penning them all in in one place for any singe natural disaster or attack of any sort to take them out in one fell swoop....
I thought nerds preferred the cold dark of their parents basements or garages, to any kind of socialization?
Not entirely true. Geeks love to be around geeks, and only get awkward in the general population. We nerds are highly gregarious whenever we're in friendly company.
As an example go check out a gaming convention.
BTW, I think this town sounds like a lot of fun. I'm probably not bright/geeky enough to be invited to live there, but it would be cool to visit. I'm betting it would be worth it just for all the little inside jokes you'd see around. I'll bet the graffiti alone would be worth it.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
Towns and cities are located and populated naturally. Towns are near a river or a port or an important crossroads. Or they grew up from nothing over the course of many decades. The people that live there settled there for natural reasons, usually related to jobs and opportunity.
Towns can be created artificially. Almost every attempt to do it is a failure though. Success usually takes HUGE amounts of money and some other factor to draw people to the location. This one claims to have the money, but they probably don't have enough. And it seems to lack any other incentive to draw folks there.
I never saw the show but I just assumed it was set in: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=17s&resnum=0&q=Eureka+CA&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title.
Eureka!
Most scientific advances don't start with the phrase "eureka" but rather, "that's odd".
Free Martian Whores!
This sounds more like Research Triangle Park, Silicon Valley, CERN, or many other university backed commercial regions.
Call me when they have that invisible bridge thing working.
...and let scientist do research in any field they want without goverment intervention. What could go wrong?
Slashdot editors will have to take a grammar test before being allowed access to the city..
you'll get a town full of people who have a desperate and ego-driven need to be seen as smart
kind of like joining mensa. anyone who needs that sort of attention and reinforcement is not exactly niels bohr
the smart guys in any room are always low key and in the back, not attention whores
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Kansas tried this already:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=67045
Unfortunately science never really caught on in Kansas.
In California, we already have our own Eureka!
http://pinopsida.com
or work in the supermarket.
fix the plumbing...
repair the cars...
hookers with 140+ IQ ?
are you sure this is for real and not reality-TV ?
mind you that a lot of the Eurika experiments has gone wrong and there won't be something episodic-manner that will be solved every 1 hour or so.
not that i am doubting anything.... i for one welcome our AI overlord... just don't digitalize me
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(no, seriously. Proofread much?)
Wait, wasn't this a castle, and not a city? I don't recall those muppets as being exceptionally brilliant. Most scientists don't have magical worldviews, either.
I'm sure that'll work out just fine for them, until all the Big Brains try to tell them that they screwing up the internet for everyone. Then they'll cut their funding.
You want to spend how much money to do what, exactly? What's the estimated market demand for it? How long before you see a return on the investment? How have predecessors fared in this arena, and what do you intend to take away from that?
Personally, I see zero demand for this. I'm willing to bet that the even the world's 'brightest minds' want to be able to rub elbows with the rest of the world from time to time. A more balanced community, such as Southern California, would seem, to me at least, to be A LOT more appealing than some small section of Australia. So really you have two issues here and neither is going in the 'win' column from where I sit. We start with the lack of 'pretty people' due to community make-up, and follow that up by sequestering them due to distance issues. This is a haven for socially-challenged personalities, which would probably make for a really HORRIBLE community if you put them all in close proximity to each other.
I read the fine article, but I don't see the demand required to make an expenditure like this worthwhile.
or more.
you are what you is -- FZ
They should totally bump up the number of scientists from 4,500 to the full 10,000. It would be AWESOME.
Two of the smartest people I have ever met married and began cranking out kids. They now have one of the biggest collection of marginal morons you have ever seen. Nice kids, yes. Well behaved kids, yes. But they don't have the sense God gave a herd of cows. All I can figure is that the parents IQ waves were 180 degrees out of phase. Either that, or they are putting on one helluva show when company is around.
Why, without your clothes, you're naked, Miss Dudley!
Why is it that years into this concept we still have people with such a fixation on the geographic side of things?
Los Alamos made sense in the day where even simple telephones were unreliable and getting large amounts of documentation from team to team would take hours if not days and there would be no real accounting for the integrity of them once they got there. But today this kind of thing is sadly out of touch with technology. Not to mention that there is a presumption that a great number of high end scientists will get along under one roof. This is doubtful, at best.
Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
Eureka: your research takes 25% less turns.
Everything is free and you can do whatever you want. What a plausible idea.
The odds are that this will simply result in a huge well-funded MENSA club.
The ratio of 2:1 is not enough.
What? The bright guys get no gophers? Who will run the Starbucks?
You need minions.
Besides, there already is a Eureka
And, duuude, I bet that one already stocked with waiters and janitor types.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Nice. And the very next time someone feels their religion is threatened by some research going on over there, it will be bombed all to hell sending us all into the dark ages once again. ...I hope for humanity's sake that it collectively outgrows religion.
Maybe you should read "The Lucifer Principle" before wishing that. The sociobiological, "mob mentality" roots of every time religion goes bad applies equally to anti-religious social structures, like Soviet communism. Just look how much the Chinese government still couches all its net censorship in terms of "preserving public morality" despite officially being an atheist country that discourages religions as a competitor to communist values.
You don't need faith in God to have a credo that distinguishes the "moral" from the "immoral" and provides justification for those who seek power to rally a group to destroy its competitors and to violently deny reality in favor of one's preconceived notions. It's wired into us as part of our evolutionary legacy. We will *not* "grow out of it" without ceasing to be human.
What people need is a positive credo. Some religions provide that. Some secular philosophies provide that. Many don't (or are twisted to not provide one). Abolishing religion does absolutely nothing to fix the problem -- it just throws out the baby with the bathwater and leaves us testing new social structures that haven't had time to be vetted yet. We should instead be seeking creeds that do work and selecting strains of global memes that are most beneficial, instead of most harmful, to humanity.
just like Huntsville and the redstone arsenal or more like
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=eureka+california&ie=UTF8&ll=40.798737,-124.164734&spn=0.15334,0.401688&t=h&z=11&g=eureka+california&iwloc=addr
The town of Eureka in the Pacific North West
This is definitely the lamest thing I've ever read. It deserves a prize.
I tried that once, in microcosm. They called it "Majoring in something harder than Psychology". It was all dudes all the time. But at least you could go outside and *look* at all the hot chicks majoring in Communications/Business/English/Political Science/etc...
Count me out.
Nice try, but .au is being so heavily censored on internet access, that I don't see much of those brains coming around any time soon.
Los Alamos is too specialized. Try Tomorrowland, near Orlando, Florida.
Seems like it would be a lot simpler and more productive to simply buy a large area of land outside of a city and create a huge residential area with a central area for research. The scientists could then make use of existing resources while living and working in their own secluded area. They're called "walls." A lot of residential areas in cities have them.
A whole new city requires police, fire, hospitals, government, stores, etc.
If you wanted to be really clever you could just build a skyscrapper with room enough for everyone who wants to work there and the rest of the space be dedicated to research. You could plop such a building or few in the middle of any established city.
It'd be pretty nice to have subsidized living provided by your employer and be able to take the elevator down to work.
Work Safe Porn
When will it becomes real?
I only know this. The orgies would be amazing.
More than twenty years ago another of the second ranked Australian cities had grand plans to develop a Multifunction Polis which became mired in controversy and eventually gave rise to the modern suburb of Mawson Lakes which I drive past most years and which houses a campus of the University of South Australia and Technology Park Adelaide.
Twenty years ago nobody would have been surprised at Brisbane being twenty years behind Adelaide and an order of magnitude less ambitious, but things have pretty much reversed in the interim, though entirely through public confidence -- Adelaide's rust belt manufacturing versus Brisbane's lack of organising themes which proved attractive to many go-getters.
-- Our systemic servants do not good masters make.
Wondering how much of that is related to all the chemicals used in high-tech?
Shai Schticks:"You don't make peace with friends, you make peace with enemies"
how about something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule_(ethics)
-Ours is the wisdom of Solomon, the magic of Merlyn, the fall of Icaris.
It's already been done in Tsukuba. Look it up.
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. --Will
Toss in casinos and brothels ... it'll be an overnight success.
I'm of the understanding that there are more living nobel prize winners resident in San Diego than anywhere else in the world (unsure if that's per capita or absolute).
Having grown up there it's pretty obvious why. Close to everything, brilliant weather, not as horrible as LA.
ehintz
Well that bit is funny: in the TV show the SMART car is considered the car of the future, in Europe it has been driving around for years... ok it doesn't talk, still...)
Ahh, remembered it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichi-jima
A great new vacation spot for Zombies! The buffet features...
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
if they were really smart - instead of designing everything for cars from the outset, they would design everything to be accessible by bicycle - an eco-friendly bike village. if you're worried about winter - make bike tunnels - they would still be cheaper per mile than the cost of roads for automobile traffic.
cambridge and oxford allow for a really well developed bike transit around campus - it would be a shame if they forced everyone to use cars just because of a design descision at the outset.
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The residents of Eureka have chosen their new anthem.. White and Nerdy, by Wierd Al http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw
-Troll, Flamebait, and Offtopic are NOT equivalent to disagreement.
Wouldn't any college town count as this? Or if that's really too broad for you, any population center with at least 3 colleges/universities.
This whole "Gore claims to have invented the internet" is not only one of the most effective pieces of disinformation I've ever seen (yes, promulgation of this was funded by Richard Mellon-Scaife, among others of his repellant ilk), it is also one of the most absurd since, as it happens, Gore DID play quite a serious role in the creation of the internet.
The truth can be found here. A briefer version is here.
Oh, and for the record, not too long *after* the election was over, a statement was jointly issued by various politicians, most notably Newt Gingrich, stating their gratitude to Gore's longtime leadership on this issue and to how huge a role he had played in creating our current high tech world.
It's all about the information. And what we do with it.
And I been there. And they ain't that smart, neither.
Tell them aussies to think up their own goldarn name, if they think they so smart.
Brain Town or Science City, and yes, you have to pick one.
Only reason we are holding a mouse is Sci-Fiction. Only reason we are going to have mobile in our ear which has 1900 MHz CPU with 8 Ã-- 512 KiB L2-Cache is Sci-Fiction. As long as we dream we will have what we dream. It is simple what you dream is what you get.
So what brand of deodorant will these guys be plugging?
Not a bad design, even if it is thirty years old. Distributed systems. Fault tolerant. Designed to be able to disperse and have the citizens stay connected through encrypted channels. Amazing social dynamics. I would certainly consider moving there if it existed.
That John Brunner was a pretty sharp guy.
It's all about the information. And what we do with it.
Religion does nothing but hide what we know and what we don't know. "Good and evil" are not the exclusively defined by "the church" as they would have everyone believe but so much is done in the name of such beliefs that we are all better off without them.
The more advanced we become, the fewer gods we need. Most of us are down to one or fewer gods. When we all have zero, we will have achieved something better and will have fewer reasons to distrust and hate.
I'm not so sure about birth rates but I would genuinely worry about rates of Aspergers and related syndromes. I get the distinct impression that Aspergers rates are significantly higher in the towns where IBMers live, in parts of Silicon Valley, and other places where certain kinds of "smart people" live.
Me? I consider myself legitimately a genius by some standards (gawd, I hate that word) and I know that part of my anomolous abilities to focus and to internally run very complex simulations of reality are inextricably interwoven with the things that make me socially awkward and prone to what is thought of as ADD. And none of this even begins to get into what kids would be like raised in such a place. I am well aware that there, too, my childhood environment is part of what alienates me from just about everybody.
So, low birth rates? Don't sweat it. Increasingly "freak"-like children? Bet on it.
It's all about the information. And what we do with it.
That's a big part of the premise of the show, and one of the reasons it works. It also removes the "eggs in one basket" argument. Of course, that's also one of the reasons why announcing that you're going to undertake a project like this ensures that it will never be a success. It can't be self-selecting either. So if you're going to embark on a Quixotic quest like this, who do you get to choose your geniuses?
Sorry Australia but this has "fail" written all over it.
What a great idea.
That, coupled with the censored Internet, and I can't wait to run to .au.
Sheesh. Good ideas, bad ideas.
Wait, didn't we decide about 30 years ago, these where called cults? And cults are bad, mkay?
lol
--Toll_Free
So, would these interference patterns cause spontaneous creation of doomsday machines at the maxima created by them?
It's all about the information. And what we do with it.
in basement apartments
Seems to me that the *really* smart thing to do would be to recruit more kinds of smart people than just scientists. Out here in Portland some of the smartest people I know doing some of the most innovative work are working at cafes and creating new vegan food that actually tastes good, doing funky little magazines, and otherwise finding ways to make all sorts of work intellectually challenging and fun.
I've been in some of the most famous concentrations of smart people in the world and I see no reasons to believe that a "city of smart people" would also need to have some sizable population of dimwits. If anything, if living expenses were cheap, healthcare provided, and "low status" jobs were normally flextime and twenty hours a week or less, plenty of smart folks would flock there for a chance to live in a way that they could pay their bills and still be able to pursue their other projects. Not only could you fill all of your janitor jobs with smart people who would respect the job and be able to talk to the other people there, you would have to bloody near barricade the walls to keep too many people for applying.
It's all about the information. And what we do with it.
Another eight or ten years and these should be "feature-rich" enough for most guy's needs.
It's all about the information. And what we do with it.
I wonder how people in Eureka CA, feel about all this publicity about a very fictional version of their town.
Also I don't think everyone in the real Eureka is a genius
Those "unrealistic" utopian colonies got a lot more done than people give them credit for. Specifically, the movement you link to created, among other things, the Amana corporation, founed by the residents of, you guessed, the Amana colonies. Who also, by the way, made kickass furniture and sold it in mass quantities. You know, like the Quakers? Maybe you've heard of them or of a few of the many products they invented and commercialized. Or, instead, maybe you're more a "free love" kinda elitist. In which case drop by your local Target or Nordstrom's and buy some Oneida flatware, a product of the Oneida communities.
I could go on and on. I've researched this a bit and given the primitive tech they were working with and the chowderheaded "social sciences" they had to do their best to unlearn, some of those colonies did quite well. And with the hundred plus years that have now been put into analysis and of creating more efficient setups like the hundred-plus ecovillages, most of which are thriving, we're far better positioned to try again.
It's all about the information. And what we do with it.
The first tenant at the famed Stanford Research Park was Varian, and the government was at the time Varian's only customer. Many of the other spin-offs were organized around government-funded research labs, many also at/near Stanford, the most famous of which was probably Engelbart's lab (which invented the mouse).
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Just create a country, say "There is no illegal information". Watch the brains pour in.
Beyond the scientific community any entrepreneurs looking to infringe patents would set up shop there.
Wow, I think this town would contain a supercritical mass of Ego. One argument, and we're looking at catastrophic runaway fission...
Have you ever been in a room with more than 5 scientists? The arguments get pretty heated even with low numbers, lol...
You can't just create a new city in the middle of nowhere and expect it to still exist a century later. I mean, come on, purposely building a city in the middle of nowhere? Who'd live there?
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A.) You were promulgating a bit of disinformation that gets stronger every time it gets repeated in a public place.
/. is still one of the biggest fora on the web and I reserve the right to cut down the damage that you'll do rather than limiting myself to only what *you* consider accountable behavior.
B.) You were creating an implied equivalancy between two "equally ridiculous", "equally false" public statements. Which isn't so nice when one of those statements not only isn't equivalently false but was, in fact, used as a key part of a still ongoing and successful campaign to establish and maintain the larger and equally false supposed equivalency between the level of lying and overall fraud between Democrats and Republicans.
After years as a policy guy trying to change behavior through reason I came to the sad conclusion that behavior is, in fact, largely determined not by fact but by perception and that many of the most destructive false perceptions are those spread mostly under the cover of "I'm just joking", which is no different from the frat boy who hits one of the "nerds" in the face, knocking him down, and then claims that the nerd has no legitimate grounds to be angry, let alone fight back. After all, "I was just messing with you".
Sorry, I have no opinion of nor much interest in your intent; I post in response to expected consequences.
It's all about the information. And what we do with it.
Benzene, Toluene, basically most of the stuff that's in gasoline, and MMT ... these are all more likely sources than vaccinations. People just get regular exposure to these chemicals, it's part of our car culture ...
Just look at that MMT molecule - it looks fucking badass! Hehe, wow - look at this, an easy Google search and the EPA hands this right to me:
"One recent California study reported that a modest increase in the incidence of autism was associated with the highest 25% of manganese air concentrations (65)." Source
(MMT has a manganese atom in the middle of it)
Oh yeah - It's probably also worth blaming whatever chemical clouds are making it over the Pacific.
Vaccines?? Come on ... let's look at the obvious sources of carcinogens and mutagens. I just think it's far more likely to be the fuel for industrial progress ... no matter how bad it is, we'll still end up using it in large amounts daily, and spreading the chemical love all around the world.
Stuff like this just adds more backing to my argument.
But yeah, vaccine soup does kind of worry me, just doesn't seem that likely to me. I honestly hope you're right, and it's the vaccines, because that's something we can get some control over ... where as this gasoline issue; we pretty much need a working, feasible nuclear fusion reactor now to solve that problem. (which could introduce a whole other set of issues...)
From the horses mouth: http://www.uq.edu.au/news/index.html?article=16363
the real story is that the university wants to get the land rezoned, and knows that the community is against it because the local transport infrastructure in the part of brisbane is rubbish.
the university have realised that if they put an education spin on it, that the community might be more willing to consider their proposal
the land is a substantial plot of land on the riverfront. it was once used for vetinary science, but the way they teach vetinary science these days they don't need huge paddocks - it is done in a lab. at the moment, they are only permitted to keep a few horses on the land, and that's it. the land would be worth hundreds of millions of dollars if they could put houses on it. that's the real story.
eureka Eureka
Seems similar to the 'cities' of
Internet City and
Media City in Dubai.
Eureka, California?
Not a science town.
But it exists.
From the way this is described it will still be within Brisbane's city limits, or at least close enough to not make a great deal of difference. I still think it's a cool idea, but it's not like it's going to be an isolated science city, more of a science suburb. (Posting from UQ right now)
This is one of those nothing stories that some journo has pulled out of the archives and republished. The 'brain city' concept is cyclical. It gets hyped every decade, every region gets a turn and has earmarked land but nothing ever eventuates.
http://www.uq.edu.au/news/index.html?article=16363
It's really in the redwoods, and weird stuff happens all the time. It's the county seat of Humboldt County, after all...
What's really amazing is that SCIFI had no idea there was a city in northern california named Eureka before the chose the name.
Also, long before there was Eureka, the TV show, there was Schenectady, aka Kurt's Illium & zip code 12345:-).
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Did I miss something?
Eureka is already a town in Queensland. Not sure on zoning laws, but I would assume 1 name per town, per state?
I probably just overlooked it, but hasn't anyone mentioned the CERN?
Sure it is just for physics, not general science, but you have around 7000 smart people in one place, sounds a little like Eureka to me.
Two of the smartest people YOU have ever met.
Missing detail, he is from texas. IQ 120. For the entire state.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Would be great to have a town made up souly of individuals of high intelligence and capabilities. But did anyone ever think for a moment about two major draw backs ?
First : Nerds/Scientists are slobs
No kidding, property values drop when a scientist moves onto the block. Their lawns grow to meters in length. Their house is generally a wreck. And eventually the houses look like they're about to burst at the seams from a kiloton of books piled up against the walls. So who will do the real work? This town of souly intelligent people would have to import all their labour from outside. This can be expensive or the alternative is, the workers will establish themselves near by and eventually the two groups will integrate.
Second : Food supply
Food costs money. Money comes from work. Work comes from companies. Companies are run by MBAs. MBAs are frigging morons. So unless the whole town will telecommute for a living, there will be MBAs. And a single MBA can pull down the town IQ by several percent.
A town where my wedgie-proof underwear for nerds business can finally succeed!
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
Send us your best and your brightest...would you kindly?
Last night I played a blank tape at full volume. The mime next door went nuts.
This another "we'll name it and they'll come" project by Queensland Gov. They have done this sort of thing before, where name some area to be next tech what ever or make some catchie slogans but do nothing beyond that. Far as I'm aware there very few tax offsets and/or usually zero infrastructure supplied by gov for these projects, so of course technology companies go else where in the world...
And the best way to organize such large groups of people known today is A Corporation.
Yes, "carefully regulated" by the loving, caring, all-knowing and otherwise omni-potent government officials, who would've invented it all by themselves, if it was not for their benevolent desire to leave something to us, tro..., I mean, mortals.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
... the potential for such a community is very interesting and exciting."
Not to mention convenient from a strategic/targetting perspective.
Why does this idea remind me of the Prisoner TV-series?
In any case I always thought Eureka was a US or at least Canadian city, not an Australian city in the series?
Only 'flamers' flame!
Does slashdot hate my posts?
In other news, Pinjarra Hills to be now known as Lawyersville, so designated unanimously by its newly established city council. Mayor Thomas was quoted earlier "...and further we just want to attract the right kind of intellect, people who can appreciate what our little town has to offer."
I think you underestimate just how much I just dont care.
This is a bogus story, a media announcement was made by UQ essentially refuting the claims made in the news.com.au article.
Were this a true story it would get more (well, definitely more CREDIBLE) coverage than a single write up by a News LTD online tabloid newspaper.
Future note for Slashdot Editors - News LTD's online journalists are (allgegedly) notorious for being heavily biased and factually incorrect. Consider any submissions linking to www.news.com.au or its related websites as EXTREMELY suspect.
A Man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties -- Albert Einstein