….Nvidia got DARPA money to research energy-efficient computer architectures, and Energy Department grants to research super-powerful “exascale” computing. And Tesla in 2010 got a $465 million loan from the DOE And federal funding underlies almost every new pharmaceutical. Etcetera, etcetera. 2/2
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The contradiction are at another level. As you have mentioned I also like Mariana Mazzucato’s vision of the Entrepreneurial Government
With Trump, though, where the money will go is the question.
Of course. But many of the norm-breakings will outlast him, maybe this one for better instead of worse.