lol you joking? point to a single piece of software on your computer that is maintained by academics/researchers ("came from" means absolutely nothing - this isn't a discussion about royalties or credit).
Weasely moving the goalposts. If we were stuck with mere "maintaining", you'd still be using the most primitive CPU and OS. Besides, once something is invented and shaped and studied, even a monkey can maintain it.
The point is the things that you get to use, and tech industry gets to maintain, come from research in the academic fields, in corporate R&D research labs from people with PhDs and everything (from Xerox's to Googles and Anthropics), and of course from direct parterships with universities as well.
Not as in "they created that in 1976", as in: the past, the current, and the next things you'll use, will come from that too. This includes anything from Algol, Lisp and OO and TeX to Monads, and Futures, and Prototype inheritance, and NNs and LLMs.
my guy this is the most bog standard defense of academia that exists - that they are the original progenitors of everything. it's not even true (industry pioneers plenty of things, especially in tech/swe) but even if it were, it would still be banal because by the same logic i might as well be worshipping prokaryotes instead of academics.
> in corporate R&D research labs from people with PhDs
lol tell me you've never been in a research group without telling me. hate to break it to you, as someone with a PhD and as someone who spent some time in an industry research group at the beginning of their career, almost nothing comes out of these groups in tech (the stuff that does see the light of day is the exception that proves the rule).
lol you joking? point to a single piece of software on your computer that is maintained by academics/researchers ("came from" means absolutely nothing - this isn't a discussion about royalties or credit).
Weasely moving the goalposts. If we were stuck with mere "maintaining", you'd still be using the most primitive CPU and OS. Besides, once something is invented and shaped and studied, even a monkey can maintain it.
The point is the things that you get to use, and tech industry gets to maintain, come from research in the academic fields, in corporate R&D research labs from people with PhDs and everything (from Xerox's to Googles and Anthropics), and of course from direct parterships with universities as well.
Not as in "they created that in 1976", as in: the past, the current, and the next things you'll use, will come from that too. This includes anything from Algol, Lisp and OO and TeX to Monads, and Futures, and Prototype inheritance, and NNs and LLMs.
my guy this is the most bog standard defense of academia that exists - that they are the original progenitors of everything. it's not even true (industry pioneers plenty of things, especially in tech/swe) but even if it were, it would still be banal because by the same logic i might as well be worshipping prokaryotes instead of academics.
> in corporate R&D research labs from people with PhDs
lol tell me you've never been in a research group without telling me. hate to break it to you, as someone with a PhD and as someone who spent some time in an industry research group at the beginning of their career, almost nothing comes out of these groups in tech (the stuff that does see the light of day is the exception that proves the rule).