>I see it as a call to arms to people who are working on, say, ad serving networks, to work on curing cancer instead (where "curing cancer" is a variable that c

>I see it as a call to arms to people who are working on, say, ad serving networks, to work on curing cancer instead (where "curing cancer" is a variable that could be replace with any "big, hard, fundamental problem"). No, a call to arms for working on big, hard, fundamental problems would be to say, "Let's restructure the scientific career path away from a pyramidal labor and triple funding to the NSF and NIH."