"Barriers to private space flight" unfortunately includes gravity.
Sorry, but there is no good answer to dealing with competitive space programs without using the word "program."
Not only does this fail the "Tragedy of the Commons" test, but this vitriol pretends that Microsoft's missing tax dollars would have been allocated for infrastructure. Why not say the missing dollars were meant to alleviate the pain of orphans suffering from terminal cancer?
To add insult to injury, the infrastructure Microsoft's intelligent tax dollars supposedly would be building is "needed" infrastructure for Microsoft itself - as opposed to infrastructure for the rest of Washington...
The "don't be evil" line was a reference to Google's hand in censorship for the Chinese government (this is recent news). Try checking out www.google.cn before flinging mud. I'm a skeptic of this prize because the technology is so valuable that a million dollar incentive shouldn't change the decision of whether a company or individual should pursue a billion dollar technology. If I offered you twenty million dollars to develop a fully functional AI, that certainly wouldn't be your incentive, would it?
This is a $10 million prize for a several billion dollar technology. It'll be nice for sparking interest in the field, but it shouldn't make any more Celera Genomics-types.
"The plan for a genomics X Prize fell into place last year after Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page joined the foundation's board and then recruited Dr. Venter to become a director."
(Dr. Venter is the Vietnam vet who started Celera Genomics [comes from "Celerity"])
Well, that just took the idea from "unrealistic" to "unnerving."
I see Google has decideed to keep its mission statement about "[organizing] the world's information and [making] it universally accessible and useful," despite having trashed it's "don't be evil motto." That's nice.
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"Barriers to private space flight" unfortunately includes gravity. Sorry, but there is no good answer to dealing with competitive space programs without using the word "program."
Not only does this fail the "Tragedy of the Commons" test, but this vitriol pretends that Microsoft's missing tax dollars would have been allocated for infrastructure. Why not say the missing dollars were meant to alleviate the pain of orphans suffering from terminal cancer? To add insult to injury, the infrastructure Microsoft's intelligent tax dollars supposedly would be building is "needed" infrastructure for Microsoft itself - as opposed to infrastructure for the rest of Washington...
The "don't be evil" line was a reference to Google's hand in censorship for the Chinese government (this is recent news). Try checking out www.google.cn before flinging mud.
I'm a skeptic of this prize because the technology is so valuable that a million dollar incentive shouldn't change the decision of whether a company or individual should pursue a billion dollar technology.
If I offered you twenty million dollars to develop a fully functional AI, that certainly wouldn't be your incentive, would it?
This is a $10 million prize for a several billion dollar technology. It'll be nice for sparking interest in the field, but it shouldn't make any more Celera Genomics-types. "The plan for a genomics X Prize fell into place last year after Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page joined the foundation's board and then recruited Dr. Venter to become a director." (Dr. Venter is the Vietnam vet who started Celera Genomics [comes from "Celerity"]) Well, that just took the idea from "unrealistic" to "unnerving." I see Google has decideed to keep its mission statement about "[organizing] the world's information and [making] it universally accessible and useful," despite having trashed it's "don't be evil motto." That's nice.