This is my niece Hailey. Hailey likes horses,
Hailey is about 10 years old in this picture. She has a probability of dying At age 18, the probability that she will die will have doubled. And it will continue to double, every 8 years. If you graph out the probability that she will survive to a given age, it looks like this: [image survival probability] Pretty grim, eh? Everyone's survival curve looks like this. The odds that Haily or anyone else will survive to live beyond age 130 are infinitessimal. A scientist makes a discovery in the morning, and shares the data with everyone in the world by that afternoon. No patents prevent you from building upon someone else's idea to make a new product or discovery. Pay only for results. Reduce money wasted on institutional Wishforge is a prize share trading market. Traditional prizes, such as the Ansari Prize, are competitive--only one individual or team can win the prize. As a result, all of the people competing to win the prize have no incentive to cooperate with the other competitors. As result, there is a great deal of duplication of effort, little sharing of expensive tools and other resources, and little