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My biggest worry is that it's not science that is in trouble, it's humanity as a whole that is in trouble.

The drain towards industry is to solve industry's problems: make a profit. And yes, these can be extremely interesting problems, and hard ones too.

But what would our current world look like if the scientists from the last 500 years had bent their minds to solve the problems of merchants? (and don't get me wrong, some of the problems merchants had evolved great solutions for mankind)



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