Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Today, technology is moving faster than the research establishment.
Networked science has the potential to speed up dramatically the rate of discovery across all of science.
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.
We would like to carry out 100 percent, or maybe more, of our scientific program; I would like to devote some of my spare time toward extra scientific work.
If I could snap my fingers and do one thing in science, I would get more funding for basic science. But the level of funding that needs to be done is not on the order of millions, like the cost of the Breakthrough Prizes. It's billions to tens of billions.
The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself.
The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.
Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the organism to do, and build it.
Somehow we must reintegrate the scientific with the popular and reconnect the future to the present. This is less a job for scientists, engineers, bureaucrats, and administrators and more a job for novelists, moviemakers, popularizers, and politicians.