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> What good is a R&D performed that can't be commercialized? Then I guess we can throw out Xerox Parc's NLS because they never commercialized "windows, hyperte
by TedDoesntTalk 3y ago
> What good is a R&D performed that can't be commercialized?
Then I guess we can throw out Xerox Parc's NLS because they never commercialized "windows, hypertext, graphics, video conferencing, the computer mouse, word processing, dynamic file linking, revision control, and a collaborative real-time editor." They were commercialized by others later on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
We can also throw out most psych, social science, archeology, and history R&D, too.
- willcipriano 3y ago> We can also throw out most psych, social science Yes.
- anthk 3y agoFirst at all, they had to be called 'sciences'. They aren't.
- pinewurst 3y agoNLS came from SRI not Xerox PARC. NLS was in fact commercialized and sold by Tymshare.
- smcin 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLS_(computer_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLS_(computer_system) Fun fact: funded by ARPA
- fallingknife 3y agoWould love to know what the last major breakthrough in social science / psych R&D was. Archeology / history, on the other hand, definitely have some pretty awesome finds.
- abakker 3y agoMaybe UBI? I mean, hard to say it's been tested enough, but that feels like an answer to this question.
- dralley 3y agoAlso 2000 years of Mathematicians talking about Prime Numbers before someone came up with the idea of cryptography using prime numbers. And the laser, which took a few decades to find an application.