So, you assemble a group of people from different big companies and vastly different backgrounds and expect them to do a good job, think critically and be unanimous? Are you really serious?

If you bring together a big enough group of experts, they seldom are unanimous. Add the outside influence from the big companies and you'd have a recipe for failure.

The group would avoid changing anything big as it would only lead to conflicts. After a while the brightest people would get frustrated and leave. After adding less ambitious people, that group would probably be very good at making decisions on very insignificant matters. Also known as wasting time and money.

America became a world superpower (in part) because it's not afraid to fund such things. I would rather have the government triple NASA's budget rather than buy a couple more golf balls for GM execs...

USA became the superpower because it's letting companies blossom and people use their potential to chase their dreams. As a consequence of that, USA had the manpower, knowledge and resources to shoot for the moon and deliver the glory days.

Government and public money funded organizations do not deliver. Money is "free" for them. What they are good at is wasting money and doing incredibly stupid decisions. It's politics at it's worst.

Really, do not install Windows for your older parents. They will just get in trouble with it. Get them a Mac or some really user friendly Linux distro, like Ubuntu.

The #1 problem with Windows is not usability, but malware. As older people don't probably have any clue about security, it's best to let them use an OS, that will keep them out of trouble.