Science Is Getting Harder
Sorry if this sounds elitist to anyone but (I guess it is):<p>When the R&D workforce expands at the rate it has over the last few decades you will invariably see less talented and less talented people entering the field. Also, various forms of overhead will grow with the size of the workforce.<p>As an example about 20 people attended the 1911 Solvay Conference on Physics. How many attend a conference today?<p>With the growing size of the R&D workforce also comes the most destructive force in any human endeavor: politics.