Most important progress recently came from giant corporations promoting a thing. That thing was electricity, with electric lighting at the forefront. Second exa

Most important progress recently came from giant corporations promoting a thing. That thing was electricity, with electric lighting at the forefront. Second example was IBM and computing. (earlier than you probably think...) Next Intel and its manufacturing. Xerox was the corporation behind fast printing. Sony behind most of portable music and video recording... The Internet is the main counterexample. The otger counterexamples almost always used the effects of scale created by the previous giants. (Apple, Microsoft, Google or Facebook - using both reduced price internet, computer hardware and hole after dotcom boom.)