> You can see it in another way: science is directly improving your life. You can argue about spending mentality though. Some institutions consciously ignore i

> You can see it in another way: science is directly improving your life. You can argue about spending mentality though. Some institutions consciously ignore important signals from the research community to keep departments going. And in the field of IT especially, there's a trend to push novelty in publications alone, producing results that aren't even interesting outside the research community. I'm happy paying taxes to fund research, but I want that research to be accessible all the way through - that includes access to collected data. Which isn't the status quo.