Pure research is the origin of applications of the future.  Its ultimate value cannot be judged in contemporary terms.  Things that appear as having no immediate economic value may appear very different in decades to come.

Michael Lazaridis is the president and co-CEO of Research in Motion, the company that invented the BlackBerry wireless platform and developed the associated suite of BlackBerry products and services.  He is also the founder of the Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics and the Chancellor of the University of Waterloo.  Among other honors he has received both an Academy Award and an Emmy for his technical innovations.

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