Very interesting.
I think that governments should more or less get out of the way of scientific research (Aka they should remove taxes and stuff like that). Research should be as stable as possible because its supposed to benefit a large section of mankind to actually be able to know and use the "products" of the research. It would also be better overall for governments to universally fund these research efforts.
Of course this also extends to things like the public and the media attention. What gets researched should not be subject to the media attention or the public interest but rather how important this research is to the scientific community.
I may be a programmer, but I also have a master's degree in chemical engineering and was planning to become a chemist before I ended up leaving college early. While I don't think academia was for me in the end, I still try to support it as much as possible. The things that I do in my job as a developer are directly effected by the research that is being done in these labs.
I think the problem lies with governments. Even with governments bubbles appear. When gates and finite resources appear people become cheaters. What is needed in my opinion and this would require testing is a system of funding exclusively for the most promising researchers and a system of absolute transparency for everyone else.
In the close future research could be more democratized thanks to programming but it would be more like reading or writing are taken for granted today. So interdisciplinary development is super important as is the future. Thanks for passing by and reading. :)
You have collected your daily Power Up! This post received an upvote worth of 0.35$.
Learn how to Power Up Smart here!