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Left to its own devices, research tends to become more specialized and abstracted from the real-world problems that motivated it and to which it remains relevant.
This suggests that a problem may be tackled effectively not my commissioning more research, but by assuming most or all of the solution can already be found in various scientific journals,... See more
This suggests that a problem may be tackled effectively not my commissioning more research, but by assuming most or all of the solution can already be found in various scientific journals,... See more

look: There’s more academic publishing than ever, but the impact of the median publication is rapidly declining. We’ve also seen deceleration in technological progress as captured by an important metric: total factor productivity.
Byrne Hobart • Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
