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Yes, and, it's an "attention economy." I call a field "fully subscribed" when it has enough money and researchers to make full progress. It's over subscribed
by jjindev 13y ago
Yes, and, it's an "attention economy."
I call a field "fully subscribed" when it has enough money and researchers to make full progress. It's over subscribed when you are far into diminishing returns. And of course, under subscribed fields lack everything.
What is under subscribed today? Electric cars less than they were, but perhaps zero energy homes ...
- GlennS 13y agoThe UK government has a requirement that all new homes will be carbon neutral by 2016, so I imagine there will be some money appearing for research in this area. There are a couple of caveats: 1) You can build homes which have worse energy efficiency than the requirements if you offset it somehow, e.g. by improving existing homes. 2) The definition of 'carbon-neutral' has been diluted for these regulations. For instance, it doesn't include appliances that you plug in.
- jjindev 13y agoI was speaking from a US perspective. I think we lag. We probably could import that tech of course ... and I was really grasping for under subscribed fields. Any other suggestions?