Fundamental CS is only interesting because it has been broken-through so thoroughly that you cannot possibly optimize it any further. Transistor logic, floating

Fundamental CS is only interesting because it has been broken-through so thoroughly that you cannot possibly optimize it any further. Transistor logic, floating-point standards, B-tree algos, bitwise operations and language syntax are well-explored technologies at this point. If better alternatives existed in-theory, we'd be teaching them instead. It's mostly just the virtue of a public shared asset that the most demanded optimizations are done the earliest. If I wanted to push the state of the art forward, I'd have to move halfway across the country, get a new major, and then get paid peanuts to work in a TSMC factory. No thanks, I'll keep my Herman-Miller and Starbucks allowance working on boring old software.