Gotta hire some physicists, and pay them great salaries to get them away from the kind of contributions to society they like doing... If you paid me $400k++++ a year to do it, I could go wild coming up with seemingly plausible, as well as just on the edge of disbelief required from STEM educated people, sci Fi technologies.
The problem really is those who have the background to do it are (1) struggling to survive in the current market with their degrees without selling out to finance, (2) desiring to contribute to the compendium of human knowledge... So yeah, to get some solid sci-fi ideas you would have to share an alluring slice of the pie... The people who could do it, aren't going to do it for salaries comparable to those in their fields, or even 20-30% above their salaries. It's gotta be multiples with some level of security in the long term.
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Gotta hire some physicists, and pay them great salaries to get them away from the kind of contributions to society they like doing... If you paid me $400k++++ a year to do it, I could go wild coming up with seemingly plausible, as well as just on the edge of disbelief required from STEM educated people, sci Fi technologies.
The problem really is those who have the background to do it are (1) struggling to survive in the current market with their degrees without selling out to finance, (2) desiring to contribute to the compendium of human knowledge... So yeah, to get some solid sci-fi ideas you would have to share an alluring slice of the pie... The people who could do it, aren't going to do it for salaries comparable to those in their fields, or even 20-30% above their salaries. It's gotta be multiples with some level of security in the long term.