Subservience is forced, has been forced, due to biology, until the very recent past. Women could not even control having children until birth control. No one likes "corporate drone" jobs. No one likes being a servant or a slave either. Sometimes you take what you can get at the time just to survive.
Long answer: We have delved into so many areas, worked so hard in seclusion for the past several years, almost existing in a parallel universe to Silicon Valley. Our own private Idaho, if you will. New database structures, encryption, automatic parallel programming, low power servers, basically whatever suits our fancy. Now it is decentralized genomics. Who knows what tomorrow may bring?
I figured out early on that we were so weird that PhD land, corporate research, VC-istan, and federal contracting would think we were too "out of the box". So we decided to go it alone. We are motivated by pushing science forward purely, and the other groups have competing objectives that did not suit us.
The tragedy is that many of our inventions and code may never be used by the masses. We are so private the thought of sharing our work is excruciating. We have amassed a large amount of work. I guess we will start sharing it soon, but that would pull us away from the development, which would be terrible. :-)
Things can change fast. My husband was alone until he met me at 35. 11 years later he had found the family of four small children, the suit, and the church (at least on Christmas and Easter).
If you want a different life you can find it change pretty quickly.
Subservience is forced, has been forced, due to biology, until the very recent past. Women could not even control having children until birth control. No one likes "corporate drone" jobs. No one likes being a servant or a slave either. Sometimes you take what you can get at the time just to survive.