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What exotic science fiction technology would you finance research into, if you had billions of dollars? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've been thinking along the same lines lately. A fully open source hardware and software architecture and implementation, to replace the closed "old world".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hell yeah but it is all a pipe dream anyway cause no corpo or billionaire is gonna do it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I imagine it would probably take someone obscenely rich choosing not to be rich anymore in order to make it happen. Which seems unlikely.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Unlikely is putting it mildly