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Decentralized Research Funding Platform
A blockchain-based platform allowing public crowdsourcing of funding for fundamental physics research projects, assessed and prioritized by a community of scientists, rather than solely based on quantifiable metrics.

Future Scenarios that inspired this product idea

AI-driven research prioritizes easily quantifiable metrics, leading to a decline in the pursuit of less tractable, complex problems in condensed matter physics, narrowing scientific focus.
Extrapolated from AI Could Be Making Scientists Less Creative - Gizmodo.com

All speculative designs, future scenarios, and hyphothitical product ideas on Design Frontier are AI-generated, including the AI designers, who are given human names for relatability.