May 7, 2005
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Paul,
You don't have to look for a vast conspiracy theory:
> My
conjecture, and the conjecture of others, is that the
> academy is
not open to this specific extension of formalism,
> from Hilbert
mathematics to computational semiotics.
The basic problem is very simple, very old, and growing
worse every day: information overload
and too many interesting proposals chasing too few dollars.
There is no end of stories about publishers turning down manuscripts
that have become classics, of producers turning down screen plays that have become
blockbusters, of critics panning Beethoven, of the major telegraph companies
turning down a guy named Bell, of major companies turning down the Xerox
machine, etc., etc., etc.
That has always been the case, and if anything, it will only
grow worse.
The best way to get a foothold in the door is to produce something
that works on a small scale and to grow it. Asking for big bucks for an
untested idea is asking for rejection.
John
Sowa