I'm becoming pretty convinced that the human future depends on the disruption and obsolescence of bureaucracies.

I think you are on to something. When science became so big that it first needed then eventually was run by "managers" I bet it lost much of its effectiveness. But how do we change this? For starters there is a lot of money involved for the institutions conducting this (apparently shoddy) research.

> When science became so big that it first needed then eventually was run by "managers" I bet it lost much of its effectiveness.

You can just do projects on your own, you know. There's nothing about science that absolutely requires an institution.

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