Issue (WIWE) status: Submitted, Unpublished

Wild Card's progress: Basic

This Wild Card came from: 
Interviews

The source of this Wild Card: 
Martin Sharp, Liverpool John Moores University, interviewed by RTC North

Likelihood timeframe and scenario features : 
now-2025

Wild Card's description: 

Perhaps this is more of a stereotypical Wild Card, but it would surely boost interest and investment in science. By this I am not alluding to aliens landing here, but some evidence of intelligent signals from deep space for instance. A renewed interest in science coupled with “fear” of alien contact could significantly boost science spend.