Who would possibly want to hear what it has to say? Television executives. Everything has an application, and many fewer of those applications are useless tha

Who would possibly want to hear what it has to say? Television executives. Everything has an application, and many fewer of those applications are useless than you'd think. Plus there are higher-order effects to consider, mostly related to the tools people develop to attack interesting problems. The classic example is the space race: how useful is it to be able to fire four-hundred-foot-tall fuel tanks into space?