Thiel puts his money where his mouth is, funding not only early-stage start-up companies but long-shot research into sci-fi inventions.

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By combining broad views of the future with technical skills, experience, and research, visioneers take speculative ideas out of the hands of sci-fi writers and technological forecasters and put them on firmer ground.

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Besides SCI and biotechnology research, most of the budget is used for ethical and over-the-counter (o-t-c) products.

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