Happens at every big company. The reason we don't hear about it more often isn't that big companies don't know this is a problem. Its just that the only solut

Happens at every big company. The reason we don't hear about it more often isn't that big companies don't know this is a problem. Its just that the only solution they seem to be able to come up with is to enforce keeping unused breakthroughs secret. We can be happy that at Google, at least, these things can seep out and be of some benefit to the rest of us.