I don't think it's rational to dedicate your future
to anything if you are not yet sure.
As for the current environment being devoted to science -
due to science being much about sharing knowledge, the
"science monks" better get used to seminars, visits of
colleagues, conferences, students, sysadmins, Web
publishing, - and not losing touch with the social reality.
With all this said, a community of devoted researchers
sharing living arrangements may be an interesting idea.
It can be partly found in isolated research labs,
biological/ethnographic expeditions, etc.
Not sure if computer scientists would like to live in close
proximity...
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Sasha Chislenko <http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/home.html>
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