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None of those things were “invented” or truly brought to the edge of technological abilities by the companies you described. They piggyback off of existing inve
by koluna 6y ago
None of those things were “invented” or truly brought to the edge of technological abilities by the companies you described. They piggyback off of existing invention, and pretty much are interested in keeping things as-is.
Your phone manufacturer doesn’t care about invention as much as they care about you buying the next, slightly better model.
Your TV manufacturer is interested in recouping the losses they have on selling you a cheap device by pushing as much advertising as possible.
The pharma company is interested in gouging as much money as they can through holding patents - they don’t develop medicine out of the goodness of their hearts.
You get the point.
- jfim 6y ago> None of those things were “invented” or truly brought to the edge of technological abilities by the companies you described. Actually, the large conglomerates do have R&D labs working on semiconductors, chemistry, manufacturing, and so on, so that they can come up with improvements to sell. The reason why semiconductors get smaller, TVs get brighter colors, larger panels have acceptable manufacturing yields, is exactly because of this R&D.
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