http://thetyee.ca/News/2013/
http://thefischbowl.blogspot.
Imagine an office [school] where meetings [classes] are optional. Nobody talks about how many hours [credits] they worked last week. People have an unlimited amount of vacation and paid time off. Work [learning] is done anytime and anywhere, based entirely on individual [student] needs and preferences. Finally, employees [students and staff] at all levels are encouraged to stop doing anything that is a waste of their time, their customers’ time, or the company’s time. [bracketed comments mine]
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wait.
so why not use google...?
 Michel Bauwens (@mbauwens)11/15/13 7:22 AM RT @jorge_andr3s: Uno de los especialistas en consumo colaborativo visita el país, es@mbauwens trabajando en @FLOKSociety
so imagine .. every one a scientist..
reality. not myth.
set these scientists free.
simplest .. most sustainable solution...
no...?
Scientific research probes the deepest mysteries of the universe and of living things, and it creates applications and technologies that benefit humanity and create wealth
yep. each and every one of us..
Indeed, U.S. taxpayers are, to some extent, willing to pay for activities that enrich American social and cultural capital without having a direct economic benefit. Congress, up to now, has appropriated about $150 million a year for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and about $170 million a year for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) (3). However, by contrast, Congress appropriates about $40 billion a year for basic research (4). If you plot a bar graph with these three numbers, you can barely see that the NEA and NEH numbers are not zero.
is evident that society is willing to pay much more for curiosity-driven research in science than for the analogous thought- and beauty-driven practice of the arts and humanities. It
how is it all.. everything... not curiosity driven research...?
if we can just get out of the way... with all the policies and labeling.. and obsession to manage.. to be in control...
American individual income has grown exponentially. (That is on average. The distribution of that income within the population is another matter entirely.)
oh my.
from someone wanting to declare extra smarts/power/results from the guys currently labeled/paid as scientists...?
America is a country of wonderful, frontier, short-term pragmatism. That benefits us in many ways, but it may not put the United States in the best competitive position in a game of international competition that favors long time horizons. Europeans look up and see 500-year-old cathedrals. European science has developed mechanisms for obligating nation states to make investments over long periods, for example, to CERN (23), where the Higgs boson was discovered. Chinese culture sees itself as having continuity over millennia. China's investment in R&D as a fraction of GDP is under 2%, but that number is on a trajectory of amazingly rapid and sustained increase (24).
The American public already highly values science and scientists and seems to have an intuitive grasp of heavy-tailed, not immediately monetizable, returns. Through communication with the public, we must continue to provide the evidence that may justify those beliefs—indeed, this is the mission of AAAS. But also as individuals, we must seize every opportunity to demonstrate that what we do is altruistic and idealistic and that it is also economically vital. Our message is that science is a single, unified, long-term enterprise in which basic science discoveries, and research accomplishments of applied science and engineering, are things to be admired in their own right that also, often unpredictably, lead to better jobs and better lives, new products and new industries. Both of these perspectives will be well served if the United Statesis able to keep itself (and help to put the rest of the world) on a Solow-inspired trajectory of technology-enabled exponential growth.
oh my.
America is a country of wonderful, frontier, short-term pragmatism. That benefits us in many ways, but it may not put the United States in the best competitive position in a game of international competition that favors long time horizons
ugh. no wonder.
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