Mr. CLAUDE CANIZARES (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): These are excellent scientists, and two of them actually served as associate administrators within NASA. I think it's a shame not to have strongly opinionated but very smart people giving advice.

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Once people get used to the simplicity and (opinionated) power of the Mailbox interface, it will be hard to go back.

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Hundreds of millions of its people are now urbanised, educated, literate, informed, intellectual and opinionated.

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