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What's more innovative a new frontend framework or getting to the moon? A more efficient way to show ads and monetize user experience or creating the first semi
by hellothere1337 3y ago
What's more innovative a new frontend framework or getting to the moon? A more efficient way to show ads and monetize user experience or creating the first semiconductor? A large amount of innovation nowadays is just rent seeking and very gradual refinement of 80-100 year old ideas.
Without new fundamental breakthroughs we're hitting diminishing returns here
- Aulig 3y agoYes, that's what the paper argues too. The inventions made during the industrial revolution were so massively impactful that today's inventions are nothing by comparison.