On: Academics, we need to talk

[ddingus]

As would others vote to continue it.

Relevance is a very broad term, with industry a subset.

[andrepd → ddingus]

>Relevance is a very broad term, with industry a subset.

That's very insightful. It's easy to lose sight of things and be reduced to a particular worldview. The Higgs boson doesn't have to have commercialization potential for us to justify spending a few billion and a few decades discovering it. :) It's an end in itself.

[ddingus → andrepd]

That's how I see it. Pure research is necessary and possible.