Now, many powerful ideas are better expressed as systems, prototypes, and protocols (http, tcp/ip, BTC, mother of all demos, Dynabook etc). But academia hasn't caught up, so much of that work is coming from outside academia.
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Historically, a brilliant thing about academia was that it turned powerful ideas into public goods, by incentivizing scientists to publish research papers.
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More generally, it’s plausible that most powerful ideas are best expressed in executable form. And so unless academic journals (or their replacements in the political economy of science) become executable, more and more of the best ideas will come from outside academia
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That's interesting! Playing devil's advocate, many of the underlying advances of cool applications came from academia (zero knowledge proofs for crypto, crispr for biotech applications). What if you're describing is specialization of technology vs synthesis / applications?
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Having some traditional functions of academia move elsewhere isn’t inconsistent with many interesting ideas still coming from academia. And with all the examples I gave arguably the most important ideas came from outside academia.
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