Top 10 ideas collated

In the draft report folder in filesharing I have uploaded the top 10 recommendations.
and a summary document detailing how these are represented in the 50 year time span.

These top 10 ideas should form the basis of our 1-page summary. Now we need to turn them into a rigourously supported final report. A more thorough analysis of the data in these 10 select ideas might be good. We could also probably pull out some outstanding distillations of the concepts from the survey responses too.

Chris

Yikes, I can't believe I wrote that! That is taking terse to a new extreme.

What I meant was, say for a given key event, instead of writing a summary ourselves, we find an answer that is representative of the group's opinion and that neatly summarises the main idea. If we dig up 1-2 of these, and perhaps a well-written counter-argument, we could have the report mostly written in a matter of hours.

For the thorough analysis, my concern is that we haven't been completely scientific in our groupings and also might have missed some of the richness of the data. Making the summaries was a good move because it gives us the top 10 ideas to focus on. Now we are in a good position to dig in and find out some more details, which we can mine from both round 1 and round 2 surveys. Some interesting questions are:

• How do the age groups differ?
• How do priorities change over the next 50 years?
• How do views on a given topic change over time?
• Is there a general consensus on topics, or are some contentious with an equal number of opposing views?
• What are the main issues at the heart of each of our top 10 ideas?
  • For instance, in the topic of commercialisation and privatisation of space, are the concerns about reducing govt. control, about empowering corporations, or about bring space access to normal folk?
  • for space policy, is it about maintaining laws, modifying them, removing them? In what way?

  Presenting the subtlety of things will help substantiate our position. Rather than appearing to have only a collection of perhaps obvious suggestions, we can show that we have instead some very perceptive insights into the nature of these topics.

Not all of these need to be complete before we go to Boston, but I'd like to start heading in that direction and get as much done as we can. The more prepared we are, the better we will look.