Wrong :) Cars achieved stability because roads and cities did. Functionally the demands on cars have not changed in 80 years; since then it's mainly aesthetic

Wrong :) Cars achieved stability because roads and cities did. Functionally the demands on cars have not changed in 80 years; since then it's mainly aesthetics, ergonomics, and economics. However, for computer automation there are an unbounded number of new kinds of things to do, many unlocked by prior breakthrough's. With everything that interacts or moves running software, there's plenty of room for innovation. DTC ads were never innovation; they've always been a way to pay the bills, like printer ink. Cross-subsidizing gargantuan organizations has never been a good way to spawn innovation, and it's only worse when the real money is in consumer data or surveillance.