It's called R&D. (Or, more accurately, this describes a subset of what R&D should be doing.)
Software culture is, to my surprise, deeply anti-intellectual. Crass commercialism has driven out everything better, and the result is that a discipline (technology) that ought to be focused on improving human life is, instead, focused on helping business assholes unemploy people.
Of course, the cost-cutting anti-intellectual shitbirds don't limit their damage to outside of their companies, so R&D is one of the first things they attack when they need to free up cash for their unreasonable bonuses.
Software culture is, to my surprise, deeply anti-intellectual. Crass commercialism has driven out everything better, and the result is that a discipline (technology) that ought to be focused on improving human life is, instead, focused on helping business assholes unemploy people.
Of course, the cost-cutting anti-intellectual shitbirds don't limit their damage to outside of their companies, so R&D is one of the first things they attack when they need to free up cash for their unreasonable bonuses.