{"id":844,"date":"2008-09-28T05:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-28T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=844"},"modified":"2008-09-28T05:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T10:38:00","slug":"pointing-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/844","title":{"rendered":"Pointing the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/incoherently-scattered.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/why-government-must-invest-in.html\">Why government MUST invest in fundamental research<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Basic research is not a place where &#8220;the market&#8221; tends to show interest.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Problem number one is that it typically takes 20-30 years &#8211; in best case scenario to see &#8220;returns&#8221; on fundamental discoveries. Often discoveries pave the way to other discoveries, and so forth, which eventually trickle down to technological applications &#8211; often unintended or unforeseen.<\/p>\n<p>Find me a company that is willing to invest in a project with no hope of return for 20-30 years and I have a bridge in Alaska I want to sell you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why government MUST invest in fundamental research Basic research is not a place where &#8220;the market&#8221; tends to show interest. Problem number one is that it typically takes 20-30 years &#8211; in best case scenario to see &#8220;returns&#8221; on fundamental &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/844\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,46],"tags":[111],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science-general","tag-basic-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}