The amount of brain power and financial resources these companies have amassed for the purpose of generating targeted ads or HMIs, is disconcerting. Maybe it's

The amount of brain power and financial resources these companies have amassed for the purpose of generating targeted ads or HMIs, is disconcerting. Maybe it's too much of an Arthur C. Clarke type fantasy but I always wonder what our world would be like if a substantial fraction of these billionaire budgets at Facebook, Google, Microsoft were spent on Natural Sciences, even if with a commercial scope narrowed to Applied Sciences.