Honestly, many of the projects in the thread are more susceptible to the same flaws that apply to these infrastructure projects. Bridges and dams are far more tangible, and benefit from deep pools of experience.
Related to the bigger goal, I think few people here believe the value of this thread is in brainstorming a specific project proposal.
Rather, there’s lots of other value, e.g. in seeing if any ideas or domains pop out that might help further discussion, and knowledge of existing projects and experts might arise.
(There’s also a perspective that is a bit snobby and looks down on big, grandiose planning).
Ok, probably more relevant is the the OLPC project. Here is an extremely readable overview.
Honestly, many of the projects in the thread are more susceptible to the same flaws that apply to these infrastructure projects. Bridges and dams are far more tangible, and benefit from deep pools of experience.
Related to the bigger goal, I think few people here believe the value of this thread is in brainstorming a specific project proposal.
Rather, there’s lots of other value, e.g. in seeing if any ideas or domains pop out that might help further discussion, and knowledge of existing projects and experts might arise.
(There’s also a perspective that is a bit snobby and looks down on big, grandiose planning).