Good list, but as a european in SV I’ll share my $0.02: I’d distinguish “how SV started” from “why it persists”; there are some excellent histories of the gene

Good list, but as a european in SV I’ll share my $0.02: I’d distinguish “how SV started” from “why it persists”; there are some excellent histories of the genesis of SV and what perhaps few understand is that it wasn’t an organic accident but a very deliberate effort by DARPA to forster this environment of easy funding. Without this SV would still be orchards. Of course why it still endures despite the eternal “SV is over” proclamations are everything he lists. In France, initiatives are very often top-down - bureaucrats invent a project and try to rally organizations. Even when it works, it’s almost alway useless and fizzles. In Denmark I saw more SV mentally but the economic and tax climate is such the big rewards are heavily neutered.