The motivation for the space race was competition with Russia. It was about national pride and the threat of a Russian military advantage in outer space. The US military got behind the space race. Perhaps some of the earliest funding for a "Small Race" would be well invested in identifying major parties, like the military, big advocacy groups and constituencies and the like that could get behind and profit from a "Small Race."
We know that once the US landed men on the moon, the NASA budget was halved between 1966 and 1976, once it was clear Russia was no longer competing. We need to explore ways to motivate support for and participation in the "Small Race" and identify spin-off technologies and opportunities that will develop from its implementation, just like NASA developed thousands of new technologies that were adopted by business and consumers.
When the US finally managed a successful satellite launch, Werner von Braun was accorded hero status.
We need to make it clear that successes at making Big small will be accorded comparable rewards-- and plan to come up with ways to reward such successes.
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Nature adapted to the extinction of big by making smarter smaller animals. We need to do the same with business. Making small big is a huge project that we have to make a major commitment to. We've already done it with nano-technology and microprocessor, putting in our pockets computers that used to fill a room. Now we need to apply our abilities to business.
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