Common to all "3rd options" seems to be their (read, immediate) implicit/tacit "dual-use" assumption: Egs: DARPA: every new findout is an edge for beating the

Common to all "3rd options" seems to be their (read, immediate) implicit/tacit "dual-use" assumption: Egs: DARPA: every new findout is an edge for beating the soviets Patronage: sooner or later, but most likely sooner, you come up with something your funder can brag about or profit from or simply feel good about (Detour back to second options. Academia: professors must bring in the tuition bacon at the very least Industry: academics can immediately reverse engineer your artifacts or even patents, if they happen not to be mere positioning.) Bell labs: if you squint hard enough, everything is related to infocomm infra Sorry, had to try to beat that "one day everything will see the sun!" clause https://archive.today/latest/www.nytimes.com/1985/01/06/nyregion/about-books.html https://archive.today/latest/www.nytimes.com/1985/01/06/nyre...