Personally I am more interested in doing research that can be developed into product in a useful time frame. I do not agree that the hard line is between academic doing long term research and industry doing short term research. While academics does have more research projects that may be beneficial long term there are many joint ventures between academics and industry to streamline projects. Most of the research that is not developed until later time points is missing critical information and technology, which is why it is not able to be further developed and most of the time these roadblocks are not realized until further down the road of doing the research. With that being said I don’t believe the researcher goes into solving the problem with future vs. current generations in mind, rather the main goal is to solve a problem and these roadblocks if presented answer the question for the researcher of who the research is going to end up supporting.