I think in the last couple of years more established people are getting back to Academia. The sad part is not SV pricing out academics, industry has massively i

I think in the last couple of years more established people are getting back to Academia. The sad part is not SV pricing out academics, industry has massively influenced academic conferences and has resulted in a lot of herding and a lot less tolerance to novel/fragile ideas. If you have not bench marked your idea on some large databases (costs multiple thousands of dollars) your idea is not worth publishing. This has resulted in explosion of incremental ideas and reduced the tendency of people to explore on their own which is perceived to be too risky.