Computational intelligence, fuzzy systems, and machine learning have become very popular in different academies around the globe, including mathematics, statistical, computer science, philosophy departments, etc. While a large body of academic research has been done in the last 50 years, industrial and real world applications are incipient when compared to the amount of people involved in academic research. Thus, there are many questions and complaints to be answered in order to apply all we (scientists) have done. To do so, we provide a short-comprehensive diagnosis of the current situation and provide some short term strategies to improve the link between industry applications of academic research.