I wanted to measure how smart you think the various techies/geniuses from both major companies are when put into the real world. Most of these guys could dramatically push forward the human race but they usually spend more time throwing punches than anything else. If they decided to stop bickering, who could make the biggest change in the world?
Competitors
Tony Stark
Reed Richards
Lex Luthor
Mr. Terrific
Hank Pym
Bruce Wayne
Each of them is stripped of their resources and put into the real world. They are given a small office building, laptop computer, and a $20,000 grant. They are given a cheat sheet of open source technologies they may want to reference and can only use the data-sets provided by the United States of America. No hacking for private data a normal citizen would not be able to access.
Their task is to create software that utilizes the public datasets for the explicit purpose of running a business and improving the industry they choose ie: Health, Education, Energy, Safety (Crime), or Enterprise software. They spend 3 years utilizing that software in their business venture - the whole goal being to address one or more of these categories and making the most measurable difference.
Who makes the biggest difference in the real world and how do they do it?
I see the best choice, Victor von Doom, has been omitted.
I think Tony would likely make the best changes due to his knowledge of politics, business, and science, and having been hands on for most of his career. I'd imagine he'd choose energy.
I do think Reed is overall the smartest person here, but he's not all that adept when it comes to politics and business, which per this thread, are just as important as being book smart, imo.
To that end, I think Tony is the most well rounded.
I think Tony and Lex are probably the top contenders, IMO. I think Tony would gravitate towards energy software and Bruce would utilize the crime data somehow. I think Pym, Reed, Mr. Terrific might all do either health or education. Not sure about Lex.
He may not have any quantifiable feats in that regard , but in F4#607 , he did come to Wakanda prepared for completely rejuvenating their economy , and considering how Wakanda is one of the most(if not the most) prosperous nations in Marvel Earth , that's saying something .
Anyways , as far as the thread goes , my vote goes to either Tony or Lex .
You can't be "rich" when you're all "equal". It's a relative term, requiring the existence of non-rich people to give it meaning.
Anyway, Communism would probably be the way they'd go. Central planning, peddling dreams to the dopes and dope to the disillusioned.
Marginalise the detractors and murder the alternative... Lots of PR about how effective and fair it all is. Then 10 years down the line, massive famine and death.
I think Tony Stark would definitely be a big proponent of central planning and large state programmes.
Banner would probably be the most useful of comic-book geniuses, he wouldn't come with any totalitarian baggage or any desires to control the world, he would advance the iPod significantly and provide personal teleportation devices for all. Oh as well as Old Power augmented shielding and strength.
Of the guys you list, Reed would probably make the best use of the data to create logistic channels between various cities (and states) where there is some form of natural resource or demographics based comparative advantage.
Also, he'd probably create programmes to teach children to programme in python and use Linux. So that would be a tremendous improvement for generations to come.
Tony might develop a kick-arse Desktop for FreeBSD though, which people would enjoy using (maybe also make a port for Linux too).
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