No offense, but what do you think cancer research centres do, if it's not research into curing cancer?

There is a lot more money spent on finding a cure for cancer than there ever will be on knee-brace powered cell-phones, IMO.

Perhaps we would all be better off if guys like Marconi had been told by the powers that be "Forget about this communicating-via-radio-waves nonsense and work on finding a cure for cancer." Perhaps we should have told Alexander Fleming "Stop p***ing around with mould samples and work on finding a cure for cancer."

As it is, we continue to waste our money on developing renewable energy sources that might someday be used by farmers in Third World countries to power LED lamps that would allow their kids to do homework in the evening, and even give them access to radio broadcast classroom instruction in their own language on how to improve their crop yields.

Which just might, you know, lead to that cure for world hunger and all....