"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."

-Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

X-Prize, 2.0


Maybe you've heard of the X-Prize, a $10 million award originally given for developing a successful commercial passenger space vehicle. Now, the second X-Prize has been announced, and it's going toward the development of a rather different tech: read about it (the first couple of paragraphs are background), and think about the possible consequences.

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