> What I’m worried about the Techcrunch reading me is, somehow we all are programmed to think short-term, too short term; 5-8 years. This is a consequence of t

> What I’m worried about the Techcrunch reading me is, somehow we all are programmed to think short-term, too short term; 5-8 years. This is a consequence of the financial world, but in the world of science it's a different story. Many, many long-term projects are in progress and it will be like that for a long time. One of the things overlooked in this article is that we live in periods of time where certain things dominate the world we live in. The 1500s, 1600s, and 1700s were periods of European settlement in the Americas, the 1800s and early 1900s were focused on developing modes of transportation (trains, planes, and automobiles), and the past 50 or so years has been centred around the computer which has pretty much transformed the world from typewriters and paper to devices that were only thought to be in the world of Star Trek just 30-years ago. Just because every day you and I still go to work more or less the same way we did decades ago does not mean that we're stagnating. Human behaviour hasn't caught up with technology fully and we're still trying to get used to what we have in front of us. I think that the author in the article is thinking too short-term really.