How many people do you think questioned the Queen of Spain's logic in paying for Columbus to go yatching?
But it lead to the "discovery" of America and massive amounts of European expansion. Ok, debatable benefit...
How many people questioned the validity of the space race? Which the entire world now benefits from the knowledge and technology created during that time.
To pmarca's own history, how many people questioned the resources put into developing the internet, or why the University of Illinois was wasting their time with students building a "web browser"?
Private Public partnerships for the most part, seem to be the only things that can really drive these huge changes. The only counter-example I can think of (and I'm probably wrong) is the computer revolution, which was a grass-roots development.
How many people do you think questioned the Queen of Spain's logic in paying for Columbus to go yatching? But it lead to the "discovery" of America and massive amounts of European expansion. Ok, debatable benefit...
How many people questioned the validity of the space race? Which the entire world now benefits from the knowledge and technology created during that time.
To pmarca's own history, how many people questioned the resources put into developing the internet, or why the University of Illinois was wasting their time with students building a "web browser"?
Private Public partnerships for the most part, seem to be the only things that can really drive these huge changes. The only counter-example I can think of (and I'm probably wrong) is the computer revolution, which was a grass-roots development.