How We Reversed the Logic of Discovery and Invention

Описание: “Newton didn’t have a business plan for gravity.” In Episode 3 of Designing Futures, we analyze the shift from Law-First to Problem-First thinking. We explore how modern funding and educational structures collapse the search space before exploration even begins, favoring incremental optimization over structural breakthroughs. This episode is a call to replenish our foundational reserves and understand why the most transformative technologies—from lasers to mRNA—would have failed a modern impact statement.


In this episode, we break down:

• Exploration vs. Pre-Justification: Why demanding relevance before understanding is structurally hostile to discovery.
• The AI Paradox: How we’ve given curiosity to machines (unsupervised learning) while forcing humans into audited compliance.
• Intellectual Strip-Mining: Why today’s rapid "innovation" is actually the extraction of decades-old foundational physics and math.

Keywords: Innovation Policy, Foundational Research, ROI in Science, R&D Strategy, Problem-First Thinking, Discovery Science, Cognitive R&D, Paradigm Shifts.


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