Students -- correctly -- perceive a growing opportunity in computer science related fields but outside biology, there is a decrease in interest in "technical sciences" such as physics, aerospace engineering etc. |
In particular physics departments may disappear in many Universities as the number of majors is dropping at both undergraduate and graduate level. |
Classical Computational Science is not the answer but we suggest that a generalization -- Internetics at the interface between applications and "web/commodity" technologies offers interesting attractive academic programs combining computing and the "technical sciences" |
It is not enough to justify physics (as studying Latin and Greek was motivated to me) as "training the mind" |