Google CEO Eric Schmidt was an invited speaker at a lecture series honoring NASA’s 50th anniversary held in at the Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC Jan 17 2008. Dr. Schmidt spoke for 40 minutes about the benefits of technology, innovation and space exploration.

Schmidt used the opportunity to urge NASA to involve the public, build open/collaborative systems, try Linux/Apache/MySQL, be the vessel and not the contents, shift-and-iterate, buy a copy of Wikinomics for each employee, use the collective expertise of the Internet’s 1.3B users, emulate eBay and copy Craigslist, tap into the wisdom of crowds, think NASCAR not NASA, use social-networking … in other words become a wiki.

…should work swell for an organization whose stated mission is to “pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research” and for design of things like Antiproton-Catalyzed MicroFusion Propulsion Systems. (lol).

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