Academics, we need to talk
<i>Now, I don&#x27;t think all academic research has to be relevant to industry.</i><p>I&#x27;m getting kind of sick of this tactic, where this fake concession is made before going on about how academia isn&#x27;t designed well enough to deliver to industry.<p>If authors of articles like this didn&#x27;t care about the efficiency of academia to deliver them research, what&#x27;s the big deal if there are a bunch of people somewhere running around in circles?  Hey, at least the CS academics occasionally produce something useful to industry, which is more than I can say about other groups running in circles.  Sure it could be about burning through money, or a real desire to improve the state of CS academia.  But if that was the case I&#x27;d expect these articles to have categorically different discussion and calls to action. Or - at the very least - address goals of acedemia other than performing research for industry.<p>I&#x27;ve never been an academic, and never want to be, but even I gave up reading after the &quot;(I know, crazy, right?)&quot; line.  At that point, I knew for 100% sure, that the target audience of this article is not academics.  Nobody is that much of a condescending prick to the person they&#x27;re trying to persuade.  This is not a &quot;we need to talk&quot; conversation this is a &quot;I need to talk at you, so I can show off to other people.&quot;