Elon Musk is rich and famous as a technology innovator. Do you know of anyone rich and famous for their innovations to improve government?
While billions are being spent to invent new technology, and tech leaders are idolized, government innovation is undervalued and ignored. We need to improve this if we want to save humanity from a catastrophic future. Innovation is especially important for global systems, which are not equipped for the enormous global problems we face.
In this episode I propose an XPRIZE competition to invent a new and improved United Nations, so human civilization can survive and thrive.
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Resources:
XPRIZE Foundation
Wired, 4/14/21
Is Silicon Valley Dead? Not According to Venture Dollars
Statista - Total global spending on research and development (R&D) from 1996 to 2018