Developing the next-generation toilets may not be as fancy as the One Laptop Per Child mission for instance, but it does address a very basic and long-ignored problem that's now become too massive to be solved by just one government.
In addition, biomedical literature has become too massive a resource to be assimilated by individuals (for example, 17.8 million abstracts are listed by PubMed in May 2009, of which 10 million deal with human data).
Unfortunately, for that point to be reached, we may have to wait until the progression of academic scandals, health tragedies and threats of massive liability becomes too great for the public to tolerate.
"They would say their headquarters have become too bloated, it's become a massive bureaucracy, that they constantly have to feed the headquarters beast with information.
"Now there were three massive units that became too generalized.
The massive Mark di Suvero sculptures installed in 2011 became too tempting as jungle gyms for adults when removed from their usual decorous sculpture-garden context.
And, until it became too much of a public scandal, the White House averted its eyes from the Kremlin kleptocrats' massive looting of American and Western aid.
