Maybe the real question is how your 0.01% can find each other in order to discuss ideas.
From what I have read, the people at PARC got there by similar routes, there was one group from SDS and another from Evans & Sutherland. I'm not sure we still have the same kind of "landmarks" that will attract the right people.
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What do you want to build today that is too expensive to try out ?
That, as they say, is the $64,000 dollar question.
I sure don't know. I'm not creative enough. Do you know?
My intuition is that there is about 0.01% of the population that is visionary enough to properly answer that question.
Maybe the real question is how your 0.01% can find each other in order to discuss ideas.
From what I have read, the people at PARC got there by similar routes, there was one group from SDS and another from Evans & Sutherland. I'm not sure we still have the same kind of "landmarks" that will attract the right people.
I'm one of that 0.01%.
I encourage others to contact me to get the discussion going.
You are more right than you think. The initial manufacturing cost of an Alto (adjusted for inflation) was...
http://m.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=12000+dollars+from+1973&x...
Wow. That's quite close.
I'm sure you get the reference, but since we're dealing with a worldwide audience, here's where it originates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_$64,000_Question
It was a meme: "a common catchphrase for a particularly difficult question or problem"