Thread by @wolfejosh

1/ Here is my full Council on Foreign Relations @CFR_org talk

will post excerpts later—covering:
*future of R&D + innovation
*history of private funding
*China
*Space Race
*Lux theme of “Tech of Science”
*Miami + how to (and how not to) create tech hubs
cfr.org/event/changes-…

2/ On the unintended consequence of shutting China out of markets for geopolitical competitive reasons

which will make them MORE competitive
as distrust does away with comparative advantage
and stimulates redundant competing space, science, tech races

3/ On

-SERENDIPITY in SCIENCE and the futility of government “directing” discoveries...

-scientists reclassifying or renaming whatever they are working on to get government money given to what politicians deem popular...

4/ My take is a mix of HAYEK x HAMILTON

There’ a role for government to fund undirected basic science research––and a role for us ‘greedy capitalists’ to take the risk to ‘pick winners’

The military—industrial complex gave rise to a scientific-industrial complex...

5/ On the... virtue of Elon.

For society.

And the extremes at one end of giant multi-billion dollar advances only able to be done by government or incredible story tellers

and a giant wave of smaller distributed scientists + technologists....