Gyroscopic Investing

Scientific American partnered with grassroots organization ScienceDebate.org earlier this summer to encourage the two main presidential candidates--Barack Obama and Mitt Romney--to answer 14 questions on some of the biggest scientific and technological challenges facing the nation. President Obama and Governor Romney have now answered these Top American Science Questions, which you can read below.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... nce-debate

Are you on the Kurzweil A.I. newsletter list? A lot of your posts seem to match the mail I get from them.

dualstow wrote: Are you on the Kurzweil A.I. newsletter list? A lot of your posts seem to match the mail I get from them.

Its one of the blogs I read.

"Science and technology have been responsible for over half of the growth of the U.S. economy since WWII, when the federal government first prioritized peacetime science mobilization."

Sorry, I couldn't get past the blatant statist assumption of the opening sentence.

I did notice out of the corner of my eye before I clicked away that Obama answered with a commitment of "doubling funding". Not surprising.

notsheigetz wrote: Sorry, I couldn't get past the blatant statist assumption of the opening sentence.

I did notice out of the corner of my eye before I clicked away that Obama answered with a commitment of "doubling funding". Not surprising.

Statist assumption or not, the government -- for better or worse -- has spearheaded a lot of technologies we take for granted.  The difference between the U.S. and say, Israel, is Israel allows the creator to own the patent and not the government.