We Risk Hyper-Regulation of the Technology Frontier

I admit I'll be giddy and glued to the screen if we land on Mars. While they were before my time, I still can't get enough of the Golden Age sci-fi anthologies by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg.

So I don't wish to be a stick in the mud. And yet, policy is getting overly carried away with the “public/private” approach to massive-scale technology, in which big government and big science see taxpayers as the key to centrally governed “National Plans.”