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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