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To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (57480)	12/22/2004 3:41:23 PM
From: BubbaFred	Respond to of 74559

I think the disciplines mentioned and identifired as "technological breakthroughs ... in the next 30 to 50 years" are those with highest potential of commercial viability. Those are the areas most likely to attract foreign research capitals as well. The shout actually makes very good sense. Global research funds will want to have the biggest bang for their bucks and if those disciplines are developed in China's universities, there will be proliferation of research funds coming in. Once they start coming in, it will ameliorate itself into the other no money making disciplines. Why bother spinning so much brain power on the no money potential such as theoreticals like the (Goldbach conjecture, Riemann hypothesis, Poincaré conjecture, Existence of a Hadamard matrix for every positive multiple of 4, The twin prime conjecture, etc, etc)? Maybe the others (Astronomy, Geology, Paleontology, etc) that you noted, they do not have commercial or money making potential. By the way, have you seen or heard any and how much progress they have with Linux OS? I have not heard any earth shattering new development on it.