Yeah, I’m not surprised (tell me about funding…); even so, seeing it in black&white is still a gut-punch. I mean, any one of FAANG alone could easily run a PAR

Yeah, I’m not surprised (tell me about funding…); even so, seeing it in black&white is still a gut-punch. I mean, any one of FAANG alone could easily run a PARC or VPRI just off loose change in their kitchen kitty. And sure, it’s totally speculative blue-sky R&D that might [probably] never pan out; yet if no-one ever splurged on such gambles now and again we’d all be here having this argument by parchment and quill pen instead! We learn by trying and failing, not by being afraid even to try. And in learning we succeed.