One thing I believe to be of great value which is not made explicit in this article (which I think is an awesome article), is that research debt, as they descri

One thing I believe to be of great value which is not made explicit in this article (which I think is an awesome article), is that research debt, as they describe it, is basically _education_. In other words, improve the educational resources for complex subjects. In our age where we're blessed with cheap printing of books and the possibility of creating complex interactive media, I think the question of designing user-friendly, powerful, and beautiful educational resources is a huge opportunity and pressing question. Not just for people seeking to achieve a research-level understanding of a complex subject, but for all subjects and all people. Consider the social value of beautiful, well-designed and nontrivial educational material for mathematics or basic science being widely available for all classes of people at all ages. I'd argue that when news organizations use infographics or interactive journalism at its best, they are also performing this educational function. Sorry for the long post, but to summarize, I think it's useful to recognize research debt as a specific case of the art and practice of creating media for education.