IP: grad school....

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 17:21:06 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Mike O'Dell" <mo () ccr org>
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: grad school....
> Cc: mo () ccr org
>
>
> i think it goes deeper than .com mania
>
> industrial work as been more lucrative than academic work
> for a long time now and that set the wave in motion
> whie a while ago.
>
> the scary part is how many business have adopted a very
> short-term product-development view and the kinds of real
> research being done in industrial settings are dramatically
> diminishing.  BNR, DECWRL, Bell Labs, and many other lesser
> lights are all dissolving in the corrosive financial digestive
> juices secreted by CEOs and CFOs in the misbegotten pursuit
> of "shareholder value" (NewSpeak for "stock price") as opposed
> to building real long-term survival value for the companies.
>
> it's pretty terrifying to realize that today, it's very unlikely
> any of the transistor, laser, fiber optics, liquid crystal
> display or color-TV could be invented.  of course the list
> is much longer, but it's scary enough already.
>
>         -mo



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