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People to understand. but, you know, beating the russians wasn't easy either. so my point is not, because that would be foolish, to copy and paste the apollo mission on our social problems. the point is, if we begin with our challenges today, which i believe are the sustainable development goals, because every country in the world has signed up to them, these are the 17 sustainable development goals with 169 targets beneath them that the un led on, but actually, they came about through huge stakeholder engagement globally, these are the challenges, but if we just stop there, nothing will happe...

Officials make the wrong call, get things wrong? i mean, you know, for example, just a couple off the top of my head. you could argue that the us government, under nixon, spent billions in a war on cancer, which they completely failed to win. it was misguided. yeah. right now, i believe you've offered advice to the german government, at least through your eu connections, you've been involved a little bit with their so—called energy transition, in which they've abandoned nuclear and poured vast resources into renewables in a way which many germans today say has been damaging and was fundament...

Over—outsourcing that it's done to, for example, consulting companies, to the big four, but also to the circas and the gas—s. what he meant was not to blame those consulting companies, but when the state no longer invests within its own brain, it doesn't do too well. and the nasa folks knew that. i mean, this is why i look at apollo, �*cause there's so many interesting parallels. there was the head of procurement, ernest brackett. let me just tell this story �*cause i find it fascinating. he said, "we won�*t know how to work with the private sector. "we will get captured by bro sherm...

Of proactive and strategic governments, civil servants, officials make the wrong call, get things wrong? i mean, you know, for example, just a couple off the top of my head. you could argue that the us government, under nixon, spent billions in a war on cancer, which they completely failed to win. it was misguided. yeah. right now, i believe you�*ve offered advice to the german government, at least through your eu connections, you�*ve been involved a little bit with their so—called energy transition, in which they�*ve abandoned nuclear and poured vast resources into renewables in a way...

And in particular, from the moonshot, the massive effort made to get men on the moon in the late 1960s. because it seems to me the driving force behind that was in no way about global cooperation, it was about nationalism, it was about the united states seeing the space race as an elemental part of the cold war with the soviet union. right. so first of all, my notion of missions isn't either international or national or local. it has to be for all of those because problems have those different dimensions. we have city—level problems, regional problems, national problems and huge global probl...