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    I found this on the Amazon website. As it seems, the book is not issued yet.

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    The Blueprint: Reviving Innovation, Rediscovering Risk, and Rescuing the Free Market by Garry Kasparov, Max Levchin and Peter Thiel

    Book Description
    Where has the world’s innovation gone? The internal combustion engine, invented in 1876, still rules our highways. The cancer death rate has barely changed since 1971. Today’s Internet was actually designed in the 1960s. Challenging the notion that we are living in an age of technological progress, three of the world’s most original thinkers demonstrate that we have become a risk-averse society, hobbled by tort laws and government regulations, short-term financial thinking, and mind-numbing complacency. Eager to end “paper entrepreneurialism” and avoid another financial meltdown, they propose that we expand research and development in breakthrough “disruptive technologies,” create millions of jobs through science-based engineering and genuine innovation, shore up our crumbling infrastructure, stop squandering money on misspent “horizontal education,” and restore financial discipline. The result is The Blueprint, an explosive manifesto that promises to launch a new era of global prosperity through the untapped wealth of human endeavor.

    About the Authors
    Garry Kasparov, the youngest ever World Chess-Champion, is also a writer and political activist.

    Max Levchin, cofounder of PayPal, was recently named Google's vice president of engineering.

    Peter Thiel, one of the initial investors in Facebook, is the managing partner of the Founders Fund, based in San Francisco.

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    Wow, this looks like a must read when it comes out. A perfect book for the progressive brain, but likely a threat to the science destroying, scientist firing right wing status quo fossil fuel mired right wing...

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      Re: New book by Kasparov

      Originally posted by Paul Beckwith View Post
      Wow, this looks like a must read when it comes out. A perfect book for the progressive brain, but likely a threat to the science destroying, scientist firing right wing status quo fossil fuel mired right wing...
      Let the scientists get real jobs. It is silly to feed your political enemies. Zero based budgeting is a blast from the past and the wave of the future. Oil is our future as the pronouncements of the left wing on the imminent demise of oil continue to fade into the more distant future with every passing year.

      "a risk-averse society, hobbled by tort laws and government regulations"

      It doesn't sound like they are on your side, Mr. chicken little government regulation.

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        Re: New book by Kasparov

        Originally posted by Vlad Drkulec View Post
        Let the scientists get real jobs.
        Lets back to inquisition times, yeah? :D

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        • #5
          Re: New book by Kasparov

          Originally posted by Vlad Drkulec View Post
          Let the scientists get real jobs. It is silly to feed your political enemies. Zero based budgeting is a blast from the past and the wave of the future. Oil is our future as the pronouncements of the left wing on the imminent demise of oil continue to fade into the more distant future with every passing year.

          "a risk-averse society, hobbled by tort laws and government regulations"

          It doesn't sound like they are on your side, Mr. chicken little government regulation.
          Check this out, you Ann Coulter fan: http://www.cbc.ca/q/blog/2012/06/14/...c-too-extreme/

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