Re: Japanese want a 30-year Robot Program

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu Aug 21 2003 - 08:23:28 MDT

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    On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 07:55:54AM -0700, Natasha Vita-More wrote:
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    > Smart that they are looking toward the future economy in trying to create
    > an industry involving both academic and business sectors.

    It sounds very much like previous Japanese projects of this kind. They
    have traditionally had these huge industrial-academic projects, once run
    by the famed MITI. The payoff has on the other hand been less impressive
    given the amount of people and money (anybody remember the fifth
    generation computer language project?).

    Real innovation cannot be planned, but you can try to set up a climate
    that benefits innovation. 

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