The bottleneck in basic research is not employees - we already have too many of them - and we're already starting to automate lots of the research work,both the

The bottleneck in basic research is not employees - we already have too many of them - and we're already starting to automate lots of the research work,both the manual one(robotics in biology), and the mental one(lots of the data analysis in many scientific disciplines could-be/is automated).