Comments on: Scientists Need More Entrepreneurial Drive

By: jessica

jessica — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:55:49 +0000

Maybe a scientist can come up with a better solution than page rank.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:03:49 +0000

Hi Luke. The grid of windmills could be put in all sorts of places I suppose.

As for them being ugly, people need to realize if something isn’t done soon, we won’t have energy left to run the world.

In the past 20+ years, we as people have done so much damage to the planet, so much that can not be reversed… and people wonder why Tom Cruise purchased a plot on land on Mars :)

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:00:27 +0000

Where would he put that grid of windmills? People tend to think they’re ugly. That’s why there are so few coastal/offshore wind farms despite the fact that they would be able to supply most of the energy needed by major coastal cities; they tend to depress beachfront property values and drive away tourists.

(Of course, growing up in Tehachapi, I think they’re crazy, but what can you do?)

I’m not disagreeing with Page (just look at what combining entrepreneurship with charity has done to philanthropy), I’m just quibbling with that one point.

By: Caroline Rodgers

Caroline Rodgers — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:43:47 +0000

Larry Page’s suggestion that scientists could use more entrepreneurial drive to promote ideas that are beneficial to mankind is all well and good, but not realistic. Most successful artists have agents who promote their work — why would creative types who explore the scientific world be any different? Perhaps promoting worthwhile scientific discoveries would be something the Google Foundation could to via websites that offer little-known scientific solutions to world problems.