The problem of the gap

The problem is the gap: the gap between theory and practice, the gap between the academic world and the "real world", the gap between the ideal and the expedient. The gap is not unique to the field of automatic control. It has been identified in other branches of electrical engineering and in other engineering disciplines. Even in the field of endeavor as far removed from ours as medicine there is the gap: the disdain of the medical research for his clinical colleagues is legendary; so is the researcher\´s lack of bedside manner.