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How to Build Essential Technology - by Adam Marblestone

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There’s no shortage of intelligence among our scientists, nor creativity and hard work. But there are essential technologies missing across many of the most important scientific disciplines that would unlock significant breakthroughs—tools, datasets, and platforms that empower new discovery. These are solvable bottlenecks. Consider how space telescopes, particle accelerators, and genome sequencers reveal a deeper world to us and open new domains of exploration and discovery. What has enabled these leaps? New ways of organizing science. The teams that can build the tools we need to overcome today’s bottlenecks don’t have a natural home. Academic labs and startup companies will play an indispensable role in the future of technology, but university astronomy labs couldn’t have launched the Hubble Space Telescope on their own, nor would a venture-backed startup have built the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Hubble and CERN illustrate a common pattern in science: a need for projects that are

How to Build Essential Technology A vision for accelerating R&D Adam Marblestone Feb 07, 2025 72 5 9 Share Scientific research has been held back by the very systems driving it. There’s no shortage of intelligence among our scientists, nor creativity and hard work. But there are essential technologies missing across many of the most important scientific disciplines that would unlock significant breakthroughs—tools, datasets, and platforms that empower new discovery. These are solvable bottlenecks. Consider how space telescopes, particle accelerators, and genome sequencers reveal a deeper world

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