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Right, of course, excessive concentration of wealth is the only thing preventing another Bell Labs or Xerox PARC from bringing us tomorrow's future today.
by tbrownaw 2y ago
Right, of course, excessive concentration of wealth is the only thing preventing another Bell Labs or Xerox PARC from bringing us tomorrow's future today.
- citadel_melon 2y agoI don’t understand the sarcasm. More competition in the marketplace would create more innovation: I don’t think this should be controversial.
- nottorp 2y agoEven Bell Labs and Xerox PARC are two different entities. These days Bell and Xerox would maybe merge to "consolidate their market position" and fire half of the researchers to show cost savings at the next board meeting.
- snailmailstare 2y agoI hear a lot about how ahead of their time they were and how everything since is based on them.. But it seems like newer things since then are all being built on the shoulders of a generation of thousands of giants instead of a generation where we can only identify 2.
- hello_moto 2y agoIt's a different time. I don't think we can compare the old Bell Labs/Xerox PARC vs Larry Ellison. The Larry Ellison. People have been saying that these concentration of wealth will end up hoarding our basic needs and we've seen that already with Housing. First they come for your House, next they come for your Food.