big political and foreign problems there's lots of folks already working on it. i could add my voice, but i would have very little to contribute. if you look at areas where society isn't worried, where we shrugged it off, those are areas you might actually make a difference. it's important, whether it's inventing technology for people that no one else seems to care about enough to invent technology for, or threats from rare but potentially very significant things like new epidemics or bioterror, it's in those areas that you can add value by paying some attention, by focusing on it, and being a gad gadfly bothering people saying, hey, pay attention. next on gps, we will stay extra terrestrial. this may have a happy ending. science is excited about a moon