That is interesting.
Aside from cuts to research and development, there is also talk of reorienting programs to allocate most efforts and means to applied research, thus neglecting basic research, and research in the humanities in particular.
Moreover, you referred to the sectors you work in, in the context of your program. Let us just take augmented reality as an example. There could be surprising applications we do not even suspect yet.
In the course of our committee's work we became aware of the support we could give to scientists to further research on cancer or viruses. In the magazine Nature Structural & Molecular Biology they discussed supporting scientists by involving gamers in dismantling the proteins in a virus.
Do you have anything to do with things like that? Are you worried by the fact that basic research and humanities research, which aim to understand the phenomenon of new technologies in our society, may be threatened?