Reminds me on an article about how short-term, market-driven university research is killing innovation in abstract fields with no apparent financial ROI (e.g. m

Reminds me on an article about how short-term, market-driven university research is killing innovation in abstract fields with no apparent financial ROI (e.g. mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology). If research was market-driven in 1859 Riemann might not had time to play with zeta functions because at the time no one knew what to do with them. Same for Bayes and so many others. It's not that those man had a better environment around them than current researchers, it's mostly that we're getting results slower than we might as a human kind.