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Financial crises are far from the worst that threatens to the modern world, the Nobel Prize in Physics and one of the pioneers of graphene Andrei Game. Much worse in his said that the world is plunging into a technological crisis and breakthrough technologies are born much less often than required to ensure sustainable economic growth. “There is a deep crisis of the production of new knowledge. But without new knowledge it is possible the emergence of only derivative technologies, and they, no matter how important nor were they able to maintain that level of economic growth, to which the world has become accustomed after the start of the industrial revolution, “- said A. Geim in his article published in The Financial Times The problem is that people are not so reasonable animals, and for most of them investments in theoretical science, if it does not give immediate returns in the form “bread and circuses” look like a waste of money. And meanwhile “useless fundamental knowledge,” according to the physicist, is not exist. It is to such abstract, it would seem, things like mathematics, quantum physics and relativity, philistines obligated by computers, mobile phones, GPS navigators and The internet. The boom of discoveries of the second half of the last century A. Geim explains the confrontation between the USSR and the USA, investing serious money in basic research hoping to get around the future enemy in preparations for the third world war. What threatens humanity now (global warming, overpopulation and depletion of natural resources), the broad masses scare a little, but as a result of the government different countries are gradually curtailing research programs. “But I have a dream. Industrial revolution and economic growth continues. And all because astronomers discover a huge asteroid that will ram the Earth in 50 years. This it will be scary enough. Humanity, of course, can to cope with this threat, but for this he will need to develop really new technology. People will finally understand that social networks can make individuals very wealthy but not can save the planet. This requires fundamental discoveries, “- written by A. Game.
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