{"id":695,"date":"2017-06-28T16:56:36","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T15:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rosetta.vn\/short\/?p=695"},"modified":"2017-06-28T16:56:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T15:56:36","slug":"the-symbiosis-of-blue-sky-research-and-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosetta.vn\/short\/2017\/06\/28\/the-symbiosis-of-blue-sky-research-and-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"The symbiosis of blue sky research and technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Serge Haroche (Coll\u00e8ge de France, Paris) is giving a keynote speech at the Annual Meeting 2017 of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rosetta.vn\/short\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/06\/wp-image-2116030866jpg.jpg?ssl=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rosetta.vn\/short\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/06\/wp-image-2116030866jpg.jpg?resize=750%2C422&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-693 alignnone size-full\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\"  data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Blue sky research&#8221; is basic research, driven by curiosity. Politicians often favor &#8220;useful&#8221; research (things that are closer to technology), however the history of science has showed that it is short-sighted yo focus on applied research. Indeed, basic and applied research are the two sides of a coin, cannot be separated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He went on the speech by showing an array of examples how &#8220;blue sky research&#8221;, which the scientists didnot know initially what they are used for, later on (can be 100 years) laid the foundation to create new technologies, eg. LASER, MRI, Computer&#8230; came from quantum physics.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rosetta.vn\/short\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/06\/wp-image-231209085jpg.jpg?ssl=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rosetta.vn\/short\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/06\/wp-image-231209085jpg.jpg?resize=750%2C422&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-694 alignnone size-full\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\"  data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Serge Haroche (Coll\u00e8ge de France, Paris) is giving a keynote speech at the Annual Meeting 2017 of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.&nbsp; &#8220;Blue sky research&#8221; is basic research, driven by curiosity. Politicians often favor &#8220;useful&#8221; research (things that are closer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jhJx-bd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.vn\/short\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.vn\/short\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.vn\/short\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.vn\/short\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.vn\/short\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.vn\/short\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.vn\/short\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.vn\/short\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.vn\/short\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}