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Jason Crawford, Roots of Progress | Why We Need A New Philosophy of Progress

The Foresight Institute Podcast

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How to Fund, Organize and Manage Research and Development

After the World War we really centralized and bureaucratized research funding, especially in basic research. We've had a lot of funding for basic research consolidated into just like a small number of large federal agencies. And so you can have 11 blind spots and still get funded. There are a whole community of people who are actively working on this and I'm excited to see what they're doing.

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