Before Trump’s Pirate Ship gets so addicted to the booty of World Reserve Currency that they can’t think straight they need to be informed of some of the science and technology reforms I proposed on Usenet back in the late 1980s.
However, it appears that Google scoured the countryside to find any remaining independent copies of that era of Usenet content including Henry Spencer’s archive – and then made it all but inaccesible:
From “Do female anime fans exist?” The impact of women-exclusionary discourses on rec.arts.anime
Before Deja News, individual users saved Usenet contentmanually on tapes, creating an alternative, grassroots archive, notably Canadian HenrySpencer who did this from 1981 to 1991. After the acquisition of Spencer’s archives, GoogleGroups displayed a collection of 700 million posts and 35,000 saved newsgroups.
Did Henry really sign away his rights to keep and distribute his own archive to “Be Evil As All Hell” Google?
I was able to find – on a website – one of my 1989 proposals, based on the idea that empirical data can be quantified in terms of bits of information that can be purchased by the appropriate agencies as a market incentive.
Oh, and get this, it featured “Trump Space Services” as a hypothetical rocket booster company:
Another proposal was to replace virtually all government science bureaucrats by sending all science budget through inventors of technologies that had the most patent royalties – the idea being that you can’t patent laws of nature but that scientific utility is best measured by applications.
Can’t find that via Google Groups which, now that the Internet Archive was forced to shut down their Usenet archive, looks like the only place it might be saved.