Lack of Research

• Almost no university research funding

  • Some grants starting to develop
    • Not many, not science, very narrow, short term results
    • No R&D toward an engineering basis for the field

• Industrial funding is poorly aimed

  • We have squandered an enormous lead
    • 1970s ARPAnet led the world (largely university)
    • 1980s US cut university funding (moved to corporate)
    • 1990s the lead narrowed (funding focussed on short term)
    • 2000 no lead left (US research behind much of the world)
  • Other policy decisions contributed greatly
    • Forced crypto offshore, suppressed non-NSA security, etc.

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