It's unpopular because that disruption hasn't happened yet, and there's no guarantee that it will happen in the next 50 years. In the mean time, the average Ame

It's unpopular because that disruption hasn't happened yet, and there's no guarantee that it will happen in the next 50 years. In the mean time, the average American is stuck interacting with cutting edge research--research which is often funded publicly--via: 1. Shitty science journalism with paywalled citations 2. $300/yr textbooks 3. Crime Intuitively, it's difficult to imagine something less copyrightable than a scientific discovery. The world is upside-down.