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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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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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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The "academia hasn't caught up" argument is predicated on the notion that these are things academia should be focusing on. An alternative construction is that society needs ideas to be expressed in different ways and that can imply different contributors.
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I wonder if best ideas are expressed like this. Or ideas are the same but it's just dominant and compounding to have way more iterations of any idea a bunch. Which means academia has stopped being best place. Certainly though you're right that a bunch of ideas just can't be don
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E in academia. I considered going into academia but was worried what I wanted to study couldn't be studied in a walked garden without real networks and data to use
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Fully agree. One main reason why Open AI and AI Experiments stand out. Interaction and prototypes have the power to improve reproducibility in science.
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Didn't http, tcp/ip, mother of all demos, Dynabook all came from academia?
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Most examples you give above live in some middle place between science (narrowly defined), engineering, and design. And their successes weren't obviously/immediately measurable. Makes sense that this work happens as fruitfully outside academia as it does inside..
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