Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote:
As for the academe being a breeding ground for new ideas - hopefully it does stay that way, as commercial interests do want to dictate how the academe should train students in preparation for "the industry", and its fast creeping even in the curricula that the students take. A real fear would be the time that the academe would churn out graduates who are merely users than builders of the future computing infrastructure. Sadly though the reality in most schools looks like it is going that way...
i totally agree, it is sad indeed ... we are so enslaved with our economic conditions that we've become short-sighted and almost incapacitated to strengthen our sci-tech, i still believe creating/developing technologies is our way out to economic crisis.... china was able to develop it's own digital video disc format, the EVD, and their rationale for developing such is to avoid royalty payments to the 1st world countries.... just imagine what would be the economic impact if one locally developed technology/standard goes into every appliances and every home here and abroad.
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