>I work in the industry and all I see around me everywhere are skilled and talented people doing their level best to ship the best and most useful products to t

>I work in the industry and all I see around me everywhere are skilled and talented people doing their level best to ship the best and most useful products to their customers at the lowest prices. The theory that the whole industry was scared off from its former evil plan by the TED talks of a bottom-shelf sci-fi author strikes me as highly unlikely. Your hyperbolic and insulting annotations degrade your assertion. >highly unlikely So, plausible?