I think it's already been going on, except that the prize is an NIH grant....
More to the point, it's a good idea in some areas, like aerospace, but I think it would be a downer in the biological and chemical sciences. I mean, we've been trying to find a cure for cancer for 50 years and a cure for AIDS for 20. There's a lot more ongoing collaboration that would make a prize like the X-prize a bitch to distribute properly.
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More to the point, it's a good idea in some areas, like aerospace, but I think it would be a downer in the biological and chemical sciences. I mean, we've been trying to find a cure for cancer for 50 years and a cure for AIDS for 20. There's a lot more ongoing collaboration that would make a prize like the X-prize a bitch to distribute properly.
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