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“This list of unthinkable futures — probabilities we tend to dismiss without thinking — was published 15 years ago in the Summer, 1993 issue of Whole Earth Review. Our intent was less to correctly predict the future (thus the silliness) and more to pr
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“More than 20 years ago a generation of schoolchildren sat down to complete a questionnaire they were told would predict their future… Their answers were fed into the Jiig-Cal computer, which filled an entire building at Edinburgh University and promise
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“We would be better off having fewer academics and using the savings to fund more grants, because then more research could be done for the same national expenditure. Such action has to be taken by governments, as universities currently have the freedom to
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“The goal of scientific excellence should trump nationalistic considerations.”
The Nature editorial of June 2008 praises the launch of the European Research Council (ERC) as an independent research council with a Europe-wide reach to distribute conside
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