The site is one of a growing number of endeavors aimed at tapping two underutilized resources: the brainpower and the good will of millions of Web users.
Would you say the rest of the central government shares your view that urbanization represents an "opportunity?" We're not seeing the same resources or brainpower being put towards urbanization.
But that is increasingly the biggest challenge for technology firms, in not only being able to explore and exploit the opportunity of technology using their significant resources and brainpower, but in knowing how to win the confidence of citizens.
It's bad enough that New York, with all of its financial resources and brainpower, often cannot seem to get its act together to tackle the hard problems, like fixing schools or reducing health care costs or balancing a budget; but when this unusual collection of talent and creativity cannot handle the no-brainers, you really start to worry.
Brenner and his team are out there on the boulevards of Camden demonstrating the possibilities of a strange new approach to health care: to look for the most expensive patients in the system and then direct resources and brainpower toward helping them.
It's far from the first time researchers have looked at the possibility of computer-generated music (research stretches back decades), but with the resources and brainpower of Google Research behind it, Magenta could be one of the more interesting efforts to do so.
In short, their price-performance ratio has to get a lot closer to that of a conventional turbine plant.A group of 18 state and federal agencies is now pooling resources, money and brainpower to hasten the commercialisation of stationary fuel cells.
Short on natural resources but with brainpower to spare, the country was a perfect fit for the Internet age, which provided a natural outlet for the security, engineering and communications skills that young Israelis learn in the Army.
"We've devoted an awful lot of brainpower and resources and people's time to making this project as fair and thorough as possible," Mr. Conway said.
"There is a greater synergy through two people combining their resources in terms of brainpower, knowledge and financial support.
This can only work if we draw on existing brainpower and resources, forming partnerships with centers of knowledge and research.
