Is there impact on the academia and research situation due to the acceleration events around the world's now a days?. Thank you for share advance opinion.
Round the globe, if you see, observe, listen to the news, read newspapers, you may for once halt everything and get pensive about "What is happening?" and "Why is it happening?".
I see this world as if it is in its metamorphosed period, many changes are taking place - EVERYWHERE.
You may agree with me on this point here, "We become what we SEE!". Academia and research go hand-in-hand are are very tightly related with our milieu. The accelerations that you have mentioned in your question here, they directly affect the governance, the academic, research & development, politics, industrialization, etc...It now depends what sort of accelerations one opts for.
Changes are mandatory, or otherwise everything surrounding us would get stagnant and dull. Positive changes must be welcomed and negative ones must be omitted by all.
This is the techno-scientific age of exponential knowledge automation ( please visit my project here at RG); global economic robotism competes with humanitarian and communitarian models of making a living and shaping better human living chances. We have to shift from voting to bargaining, and from top-down-economism to community values (e.g. community land trusts, https://centerforneweconomics.org/). Science must be reconnected to human life and field research, to make any viable and valuable predictions.
all this revolution that we currently live both politically and academically affects of course the investigation, in some areas affects much more than others,
Accelerated events cause uncertainty in terms of planning. This makes research and education planning trickier. Curricula have to be adjusted to keep pace with the rapid change along with assoiated technologies. Contatnt upgrade may be required on resarch focus and academics.
All the accelerating events in the world, which are centered on the Middle East and the Arabs in general, have a negative impact and against any development or field for the advancement of scientific research in these countries to remain under the influence of the major powers.
Seems it is entropy that comes to this end. Also, don't forget that Schumann Effect results to this acceleration you mentioned, because time runs faster than before, so human beings get to more and more natural or social reactions. I agree with Dr. Stephen, reversing from voting to bargaining is the key to these reactions and our equilibrium "win-win-win Papakonstantinidis model" is the next step to welfare decision-making (see our research).
Politicians generally have little scientific education and most can't understand the concept of exponential change or positive feedback as drivers of catastrophy.
Our basic comparison for what is happening nowadays is the glacial ages and the destruction of the world. So no matter what class the academic knowledge will reach that knowledge will vanish when the accelerated events cause the destruction of our beautiful earth.