From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Sat Jul 26 2003 - 21:43:30 MDT
> I would be proud to work in materials science or molecular biology, or
> any other field with direct high-tech applications, but maths
> is what I
> like and it's what I'm best at. Pure mathematics research is
> as much as
> I'm capable of in the short term future, and I don't see it
> contributing
> much to anything besides a few intellectual bragging rights.
> Aside from
> the fact that I would very much enjoy teaching, the best
> contribution I
> can hope to make to the extropian "cause" (if you'll excuse the cult
> language) is education: an educated mind possesses more
> extropy than an
> uneducated one. Besides the innumerable benefits of having more smart
> people around, there's a chance that a few of the thousands of
> impressionable young minds I'll be in contact with will go on
> to become
> the superstar researcher that I'm not willing or able to be.
>
> --
> James
> james@lab6.com
>
> http://james.lab6.com
Nice stuff James.
btw, don't write off maths as useless. All the applied stuff finds its roots
in the purely theoretical. All our great technology bases on a mathematical
legacy reaching back thousands of years. I think we undervalue pure research
now, which is a pity.
Emlyn
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