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when Silicon Valley still had a stomach for true innovation!! It's sad how the pinnacle of innovation today is one big company copying some stupid thing from an

when Silicon Valley still had a stomach for true innovation!! It's sad how the pinnacle of innovation today is one big company copying some stupid thing from another big or small company, like the stupid so-called shorts of youtube!!!

kkfx 5y ago
When means when big companies free labs exists, ruled by technicians not managers, without time-to-market pressure, with public funds. https://blog.dshr.org/2020/05/the-death-of-corporate-research-labs.html https://blog.dshr.org/2020/05/the-death-of-corporate-researc... https://archive.vn/CKdqr https://archive.vn/CKdqr That's the "when"... To reproduce it we need similar conditions, the opposite of actual neoliberal agenda...
- pinewurst 5y ago
  Thank the triumph of ‘shareholder dominance’ and such creatures as Jack Welch for starving blue-sky R&D to death.
  - kkfx 5y ago
    I can't name single responsible, so I accuse the system witch happen to be the neoliberal school. Unfortunately too many born in a neoliberal society, having passed neoliberal schools indoctrination have issue to differentiate between them and the rest of our societies, so they tend to think that there is no alternative, or like that or like some dictatorships around the world, having completely forgotten even the recent past. Actually IMVHO when the web became as popular as minitel for the masses a kind of Great Reset actually happen: people do not even know what was before the early 2000s, even if they were already born and sufficiently aged to remember personally...
- Lamad123 5y ago
  They have all these RnD budgets and they keep hiring all the van Rossums and Ken Thompsons of the world... They can probably set a side a 1 percent of a percent of their gigantic budgets and create their own little PARCS and do something useful. Thanks for the article.
  - kkfx 5y ago
    Of course, possible is possible, but actually I see no one who can an almost no one who can't interesting in that... There is also an enormous issue: schools/universities. In the past we have had talents, because they were smart, BUT also because they can attend schools/unis good enough to make their talents grow and a society around to make that flourish. In the present society we still have smart peoples BUT we miss large part of education, now hyper-centered around neoliberals with even universities that does not form "techies", "people of culture" but modern stereotypical "qualified Ford-model workers", witch means form people not for the society needs and desire but for a very little part of it, the actual élites needs and desires witch happen to be against 99% common interests. I a decade I even expect that universities will not be anymore universities but "Google school", "Mersk school", "Black Rock school" etc starting from the early childhood to better bend peoples to their own needs and desire. In the end: take a Chinese who never exit China, a perfectly honest and neutral one he/she very probably do not think to live in a dictatorship but in a just regime that make China great, give foods, jobs etc. having not comparisons, having studied government propaganda he/she can't really know something else, only very few very smart can form a different view but still having issues to figure a different working society... At that point to came back to a society with educations and conditions to make talents flourish really like in our past it would take 50 even 100 years, we need to pass through a big scarcity because all regimes to rein need to give something to the people and they give something in bad ways wasting resources making them scarce, at that point an enemy appear, a fight, suffering etc and finally enough people will realize that they are in a dictatorship, then they unite against the regime who of course try to repress at first demolish from the inside thereafter etc and more unrest happen for more years. That's the issue. We probably came back to a good evolving and advanced society but for 2060, 2080...

kkfx 5y ago

When means when big companies free labs exists, ruled by technicians not managers, without time-to-market pressure, with public funds. https://blog.dshr.org/2020/05/the-death-of-corporate-research-labs.html https://blog.dshr.org/2020/05/the-death-of-corporate-researc... https://archive.vn/CKdqr https://archive.vn/CKdqr That's the "when"... To reproduce it we need similar conditions, the opposite of actual neoliberal agenda...

pinewurst 5y ago
Thank the triumph of ‘shareholder dominance’ and such creatures as Jack Welch for starving blue-sky R&D to death.
- kkfx 5y ago
  I can't name single responsible, so I accuse the system witch happen to be the neoliberal school. Unfortunately too many born in a neoliberal society, having passed neoliberal schools indoctrination have issue to differentiate between them and the rest of our societies, so they tend to think that there is no alternative, or like that or like some dictatorships around the world, having completely forgotten even the recent past. Actually IMVHO when the web became as popular as minitel for the masses a kind of Great Reset actually happen: people do not even know what was before the early 2000s, even if they were already born and sufficiently aged to remember personally...
Lamad123 5y ago
They have all these RnD budgets and they keep hiring all the van Rossums and Ken Thompsons of the world... They can probably set a side a 1 percent of a percent of their gigantic budgets and create their own little PARCS and do something useful. Thanks for the article.
- kkfx 5y ago
  Of course, possible is possible, but actually I see no one who can an almost no one who can't interesting in that... There is also an enormous issue: schools/universities. In the past we have had talents, because they were smart, BUT also because they can attend schools/unis good enough to make their talents grow and a society around to make that flourish. In the present society we still have smart peoples BUT we miss large part of education, now hyper-centered around neoliberals with even universities that does not form "techies", "people of culture" but modern stereotypical "qualified Ford-model workers", witch means form people not for the society needs and desire but for a very little part of it, the actual élites needs and desires witch happen to be against 99% common interests. I a decade I even expect that universities will not be anymore universities but "Google school", "Mersk school", "Black Rock school" etc starting from the early childhood to better bend peoples to their own needs and desire. In the end: take a Chinese who never exit China, a perfectly honest and neutral one he/she very probably do not think to live in a dictatorship but in a just regime that make China great, give foods, jobs etc. having not comparisons, having studied government propaganda he/she can't really know something else, only very few very smart can form a different view but still having issues to figure a different working society... At that point to came back to a society with educations and conditions to make talents flourish really like in our past it would take 50 even 100 years, we need to pass through a big scarcity because all regimes to rein need to give something to the people and they give something in bad ways wasting resources making them scarce, at that point an enemy appear, a fight, suffering etc and finally enough people will realize that they are in a dictatorship, then they unite against the regime who of course try to repress at first demolish from the inside thereafter etc and more unrest happen for more years. That's the issue. We probably came back to a good evolving and advanced society but for 2060, 2080...