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== Provocation: 100 and change? ==

=== Funds ===
The MacArthur Foundation has a recurring challenge: to charities and innovators who have a world-changing idea, that would benefit from ~$100M for development and scaling.  This stimulates thousands of thoughtful proposals and a bit of matchmaking. (the first iteration spent 1+ years in review and gave 4 final projects between $5M and 100M). 

Wikimedia runs a similar campaign each year: spending roughly [[Wikimedia Foundation Medium-term plan 2019|$100M]] across the movement.  Over $500M in its lifetime to date.  What else could we accomplish with these resources?  

Mozilla spends 4x that (largely maintaining a software ecosystem in a competitive environment).

=== Time ===
100 months is an internet generation; a good timeframe for measuring social and memetic change.  What templates work on that timescale, and what ideas can we map to them?

100 years is a good timeframe for observing equilibrium shifts and planning new planets and futures, without having to move to an island (on Earth or in space).  How do both the important and urgent crusades of today look in a century's time?  What institutions (cities, states, clans; buildings, organizations, systems) are planning, designing, and maintaining feedback loops on that timescale?

=== People ===
Some say that the critical threshold for a successful/lasting project like a new township, collaborative site, or farmstead is O(100) people or families.  How can we experiment with launching new collaborations to see which ones redound?
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