Developing ideas take so long because of the present academic ownership of research. Is there a reason why research is a monopoly of academic bureaucrats called PhDs? There is no reason for this. The best reasearchers do research for the love of it not for career. Best researchers are independent.
Freeing the research from academic domination will lead to immense advance in our knowledge. Wikipedia showed that freeing the organization of the known knowledge from the monopoly of the academic middlemen is a good thing. Let's do the same for the unknown knowledge. A research factory employing a huge number of unskilled workers trained to do one thing well (instead of an unnecessary and long academic education) will solve research problems faster and cheaper. Let's eliminate the middlemen in research.
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Developing ideas take so long because of the present academic ownership of research. Is there a reason why research is a monopoly of academic bureaucrats called PhDs? There is no reason for this. The best reasearchers do research for the love of it not for career. Best researchers are independent.
Freeing the research from academic domination will lead to immense advance in our knowledge. Wikipedia showed that freeing the organization of the known knowledge from the monopoly of the academic middlemen is a good thing. Let's do the same for the unknown knowledge. A research factory employing a huge number of unskilled workers trained to do one thing well (instead of an unnecessary and long academic education) will solve research problems faster and cheaper. Let's eliminate the middlemen in research.
I wrote about this research factory here.
http://zeynel1.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/research-factory/