[typewithrhythm]

I'm starting to come to the idea that the rate of progress is more driven by the rate of adoption than by number of researchers.

It takes a whole lot of implementation and organisation to make any innovation tangible, so in some ways a bigger overall society slows things down as much as you gain from the total number of researchers.

Competition from foreign societies is also a part of this.

[Tostino]

I'd say that's true after a certain point in any specific field. But there are so many fields that do show some future promise with only a few people doing research at any one time. I think a bit more breath of search will do us well