>Each new human innovation is based on a massive mountain of previous human innovation. That's a general rule of thumb, but it's not a law. There are innovat

>Each new human innovation is based on a massive mountain of previous human innovation. That's a general rule of thumb, but it's not a law. There are innovations that are non sequels of previous developments. Sometimes inventors think differently than anyone else. The idea that multiple companies were "almost" on the edge of mRNA vaccines is pretty much proven false by the place the two existing companies got the tech - from the pair of people who developed it, one for each company.