STEM exodus to industry may push universities back to a pre-industrial form
begusgasper · x · 2026-09-16
Scholar Nina Begus argues that the STEM exodus from academia into industry may return universities to their pre-industrial form: institutions focused on humanities, classical analysis, and basic science for its own sake, while applied research increasingly lives inside AI companies' labs.
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