[gumby]

> Regrettable that academia didnt learn from industry how to deploy, only how to spin.

Hey, this was from phys.org and spin matters a lot to certain physicists!

More seriously: with funding being less prevalent and the cultural shift to the dominance of commerce-worshipping Gradgrinds, university press offices and even individual professors are under a lot of pressure to point out the practicality (which today means “marketability”) of everything, even an abstract mathematical proof!

I can’t count how many academic presentations I’ve heard that ended with 15-20 minutes with the author trying to justify the work. They are professors, not business people, and they almost always sound like they are struggling to jump through that hoop. The time would have better been spent talking further about the actual subject matter!