How much of what Google was doing would be considered basic research? They built products as opposed to the building blocks of products. It's more of an evolu

How much of what Google was doing would be considered basic research? They built products as opposed to the building blocks of products. It's more of an evolutionary leap to go from transistors to integrated circuits but a huge leap from tubes to transistors. I'm old enough to remember a time when we moved society a lot faster. He makes a pretty good case that those dollars spent in corporate labs were more efficient than university research and I'd have never imagined that to be the case.