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Wow, fantastic video, thanks for sharing! Seeing this video, I can't help but feel a bit sad for how far IBM slipped from its former days of glory :( And not o
by elteto 6y ago
Wow, fantastic video, thanks for sharing!
Seeing this video, I can't help but feel a bit sad for how far IBM slipped from its former days of glory :( And not only IBM, but also places like Xerox PARC and Bell Labs. We owe _so much_ of modern life to these places.
And yet, whatever "secret sauce" each had seems to have been lost (at least to them, I don't doubt there are other similar places today, although I don't know them).
- BurningFrog 6y agoI hope/assume there are similar places today. Nothing is forever and every institution has a lifespan. Though I couldn't tell you where the current ones are.
- redtexture 6y agoPart of the sauce was high profits, and patent monopoly or actual monopoly power. Google and Microsoft are today's high profit equivalent, perhaps with or without the patent monopoly.