I wonder how much progress was suppressed in the past decades because of the bureaucracy surrounding publishing.
"A paper defining conditional expressions and proposing their use in Algol was sent to the Communications of the ACM but was arbitrarily demoted to a letter to the editor, because it was very short." – John McCarthy on his invention of conditionals
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Many good ideas are shot down by committees of experts, because they don't fit the mold of preconceived and arbitrary rules based on prior knowledge. By definition new ideas break the mold & get rejected. Picking ideas rejected by committees could be a way to find new ideas!
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There is a long history of experts often being wrong about new ideas and the future - surprisingly even in their own fields! Here is a list that I had compiled a while back :https://qr.ae/TUhBRv
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