We do not live in any sense outside of knowledge. Vaccines, antibiotics, psychotropics, food, transport, energy, shelter, drinking water, information flow, statistics, artificial intelligence, employment, industry, commerce, education, environment, security, peace, democracy, in short: life all and even Death depends, today, on knowledge.
However, not every research process generates functional or useful knowledge for human life. Many of these processes, perhaps most of them, either never produce useful knowledge, or they produce it in ways and means that were not those that were intended. Of all the forms of human production -except, perhaps, art-, knowledge is the only one in which the end or the result is unknown when designing and implementing its production.
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