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I think that's overstating. To be sure some real tech challenges in distributing work horizontally, but I don't think it's created anywhere near the amount of v
by dilap 5y ago
I think that's overstating. To be sure some real tech challenges in distributing work horizontally, but I don't think it's created anywhere near the amount of value that's come out of e.g. space race research.
- japhib 5y agoThe tech is less visible and more boring but I'm doubtful that this is true: > I don't think it's created anywhere near the amount of value that's come out of e.g. space race The space race gave us a lot of tangible, physics/materials/hard-engineering related tech. Software gives us a lot of internet infrastructure, communications, algorithms, etc. that are incredibly useful for the average consumer. Lots of people in this thread complaining about the negative value of ads and such, but the communications infrastructure, knowledge sharing, social change due to marginalized people being able to communicate things far and wide ... there's a lot of intangible benefits that have come as a direct result of focusing heavily on consumer internet.
- hvasilev 5y agovastly overrated compared to focusing on actual tech.
- polynomial 5y agoThis is a really solid question with no clear cut answer on the surface. I wonder what sort of research is being done here?
- rvn1045 5y agoYou don’t think map reduce, tensorflow and the countless other systems that have been open sourced haven’t had huge impact outside of their original use cases at these companies?