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Authored by: DieterWasDriving on Tuesday, July 24 2012 @ 01:45 PM EDT

Al Gore was important.

I'm someone that has long observed the government research funding process.
Like most research, much of the money is wasted. Not on getting negative
results, which can be useful, just wasted on organizations and people that use
the funding to position themselves for the next round. Worse, it's enough money
that it can distort the market and push out useful work.

When something extraordinarily beneficial like the Internet happens, the people
involved in the funding process should be given full credit. You may think they
were just "doing their job" handing out taxpayer money, but they were
part of something that worked where so much else has failed. In retrospect it
looks easy handing out money to the right people, but they had foresight,
understood the vision, and resisted political pressure from all of the other
people that wanted the research funding.

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