I guess that my main contribution to this thread is the saying that I've noticed somewhat similar issues already in year 2014. Here's my blog post from 2014:
http://martin.softf1.com/g/yellow_soap_opera_blog/about-software-development-in-companies-communities-and-the-academia I'm no genius, I can not measure up to the Albert Einstein, but it is a fact that the Albert Einstein got its Nobel Prize for studying the light bulb, not for his theory of relativity. The 2013. physics Nobel Prize nominee, Peter Ware Higgs, who's theory was the source of one of the most expensive experiments at http://home.cern/ was at first ignored by the CERN nuclear physicists as an author of "irrelevant nonsense". https://youtu.be/WAQqbhgwcp0?t=31m57s On the commercial side, the aviation was advanced not by big corporate or army money but the Wright brothers, who worked as freelancers, earning their money by having a small bicycle shop and working hard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers The inventor of frequency modulation of radio waves was figuratively speaking sued to death by megacorporations, who had invested heavily in the old amplitude modulation equipment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Howard_Armstrong The symbol of France Paris, the Eiffel tower, was considered to be a monstrosity that many people in seriously wanted to be taken down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bull story is a bit like the Alan Turing story and confirms that the super-mafias, generally called as governments, are like the mafias from Hollywood movies: once You are in, You are in and will be executed or otherwise repressed on the whims of the crooks above Your rank in the hierarchy. I like the mental experiment that tries to answer the question: what would ones best and smartest activity be, if one were born during middle ages, during the various Napoleon wars, an era, where it actually was possible to travel through wild nature of Europe (the human population size was not that great back then) and avoid the various "government border guards". Of course, cities had to be avoided, but the soldiers back then would have been pretty low if compared to modern soldiers. Would one work for the king's academy of sciences or try to use one's own brains at some remote location and survive there? I also like the idea that the reason the Soviet Union authorities were not able to totally root out the people's will to get rid of the Soviet Union was that the KGB did not have the capabilities of the 2016 NSA and there was some privacy left simply due to the fact that the KGB did not have the necessary technology. The idea that people would voluntarily wear a radio transmitter with a microphone that the KGB can listen in any time would have been truly horrendous to imagine, but that's the reality today. Here are a few other related links to excerpts that have caught my attention: http://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2012-11-09-craftsperson-and-scholar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ka4KY7TMTU&feature=youtu.be&t=1h6m14s Thank You for reading my comment. I hope that it offers some useful inspiration. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
