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The usefulness question is the a poison to discovery. How many things we use in our daily life would have survived the first peer review for usefulness? The p
by PicassoCTs 5y ago
The usefulness question is the a poison to discovery.
How many things we use in our daily life would have survived the first peer review for usefulness?
The printing press? Makes no sense, use scribes. The public cant even read.
The internet? Why would people use a computer to communicate and share data? Its super slow, just send a magnetic drive or even better, copy the images on paper.
Solar power? We have coal, oil, nuclear, that stuff has no future.
If something is not useful, in dubio assume, that it is, but you just are not capable of seeing the use or the market it will create.
- ExtraE 5y agoI mean, your point is a good one but those are bad examples. The printing press was made to print bibles in bulk. The internet was made by the DOD and universities, not to transfer large files/images but for small text documents. Solar came from LEDs which were discovered by accident by scientists working on other semiconductors (trying to find something useful), but to your credit probably explored because it was interesting. 99% of the work done on solar now is to do something useful.