"We shouldn't just be trying to shove science down people's throats.
The funny thing is that Cox has been accused in some quarters of dumbing science down.
"When we get all the science down in two years, that will be the Champagne".
He is also the rare novelist to engage deeply with science, down to its most mind-bending details.
W.A.D.A. can't slow science down -- or influence a culture that hungrily pursues human enhancements of all kinds.
In 1996, American colleges awarded 25,000 bachelor's degrees in computer science, down from 42,000 in 1985.
An ancient error will be corrected, one so profoundly misguided that it has led science down the wrong avenue, until it is approaching a cul-de-sac.
But he has merely distilled the so-called dismal science down to its most primal aim: explaining how people get what they want, or need.
When governments let science down, they do it not because they are following an "anti-science" agenda, but because indifference to the needs and demands of the scientific community does not appear to carry a political cost.
"Bringing the computer science down to end users so they can do some simple application development themselves is an incredibly attractive proposition, " said Ken Kennedy, a professor at Rice University, who is conducting research on the subject.
In recent tests to assess the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds from across the world, the UK ranked 26th for maths and 20th for science, down overall from 28th and 16th respectively in 2009.
