[Ads-l] Moonshot and Moonshot Solution

[Dan Goncharoff]

>From an e-mail I received today:

What is a moonshot?

Huge problem + Radical Thinking + Breakthrough Technology
A moonshot addresses a complex, global problem with an outlier solution /
perspective / approach, enabled by a novel application of existing science
or technology, or a game-changing breakthrough.

(Source: https://www.solveforx.com/about)

Apparently the term was reintroduced by author Steven Levy.

http://www.wired.com/2013/01/ff-qa-larry-page/

who had previously used in Whole Earth Catalog in the Summer 1990 issue.

Not in OED, that I can see.

DanG

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