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There’s a pretty good argument for functional monopolies facilitating innovation! We like our transistors and all that.

• blowski 5y ago
  Transistors were originally invented during WW2. Reductio ad absurdum - we should have one big state monopoly controlling everything in the interests of permanent warfare.
  • hoseja 5y ago
    That does feel like pretty much what is happening.
  • Y_Y 5y ago
    The vacuum tube transistor was invented in 1907 by Forest, the modern solid-state transistor in 1947 by Bardeen and Brattain.