Jerry Lettvin seems to agree (http://www.tengerresearch.com/learn/interviews/jeromelettvin_text.htm http://www.tengerresearch.com/learn/interviews/jeromelettvin

Jerry Lettvin seems to agree (http://www.tengerresearch.com/learn/interviews/jeromelettvin_text.htm http://www.tengerresearch.com/learn/interviews/jeromelettvin...): "Up to about 1950's there was a kind of freedom in the scientific world — certainly at MIT — that allowed you to play games of all sorts. As two or three decades went by MIT was taken over by managers." "Managers have wrecked education immensely. The differences between education and research now and what was done 50 years ago is fantastic. There's a profound difference in the freedom to research and question that you could do then, and what you're not allowed to do now. I wouldn't be able to get a job now under any circumstances." BTW, one of his hacks showed up on HN a while back. (http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=2670243 http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=2670243)