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Carriers when first cell phone appeared: "Families can communicate more" You: "No family can afford it" Countless services we take today for granted have been
by nickpp 6y ago
Carriers when first cell phone appeared: "Families can communicate more"
You: "No family can afford it"
Countless services we take today for granted have been introduced initially as toys for the ultra rich, then made their way to the general consumer. It's a good thing.
- einpoklum 6y agoFalse analogy. Mobile phones were expensive because the R&D was expensive and the production technology immature. Flying people requires a lot of energy because of physical constraints, and the potential economies on fuel use, while existent, are strongly constrained.
- nickpp 6y agoExtracting and storing energy from nature is also a technological problem. Also solved using R&D.