So all of our research is basically going to be theoretical and restricted to the field research done so far. Wonderful.

That’s not what the article says at all, but go on with your doomer takes.

Instead of counting bears in the forest by hand, you set up a hundred trail cameras and then use computers to count bears 24/7 across an entire area. This is field research, on a scale that was previously impossible.

We can always deploy fleets of drones to gather new data for us, right?