Stewart Brand was quoted in this weekends NY Times piece on how the many X Prizes seem to be driving many areas of innovation (automotive, space travel, genomics etc). Peter Diamandis the director of the X Prize Foundation will be speaking in our Seminar Series in September on this exact issue…
The complexities of creating the auto prize illustrate a wider problem of how to come up with ever more novel tests of human ingenuity over time. Mr. Brand of the Long Now Foundation predicts that contests will soon pursue “things we truly think of as impossible.”
Mr. Brand’s wish list includes machines that defy gravity or that allow us to read the minds of other people.
