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Wow, I hope you're not in charge of the Earth's innovation budget. Replace "all" with "some" or at most, "many", for starters. But who anointed you the chief decider of what people should try to invent. And how do any of your proclamations apply to this bicycle? You do realize that there are billions of people who use bicycles different from you and me. I really, really don't like this reply.


> Wow, I hope you're not in charge of the Earth's innovation budget.

I don't want ANYONE in charge of the "innovation budget". Innovation budgets gets us things like the Soviet Union, or SEMATECH http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEMATECH or MITI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MITI

That's my whole point: good ideas bubble up from the bottom with tens of millions of people using local knowledge and refining and playing with existing ideas: not intellectuals working from the top-down.


Or ARPA:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA

Or CERN: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN#Computer_science

Or the South Korean tech and steel industries, or...




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