Something that occurred to me is that you get a lot of “horizontal gene transfer” between companies because of consultants and job-hopping. Just like in nature

Something that occurred to me is that you get a lot of “horizontal gene transfer” between companies because of consultants and job-hopping. Just like in nature, there are limits to the distance between species / industries. I regularly see techniques considered to be old-hat in one industry be treated like bleeding edge experimental methods in another.