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Counter-points: Flying cars (bombs) are a dumb idea, the infrastructure to support globally broadcast 140 char messages is nothing short of amazing, and innovat
by michaelwww 14y ago
Counter-points: Flying cars (bombs) are a dumb idea, the infrastructure to support globally broadcast 140 char messages is nothing short of amazing, and innovation is alive and well despite the financial service industries sucking up America's brightest minds : http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2011/04/talent_and_banks http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2011/04/talent_and...
- wslh 14y agoAnd Paypal was not very innovative... just Thiel doesn't make the irony with himself.
- michaelwww 14y agoFurther irony: Paypal options haven't been very easy or full functioning for Kickstarter projects and siphon off a percentage that could go towards innovation.
- phil 14y agoThey promised us flying cars, and all we got were these electric cars and Bloom boxes!
- svantana 14y agoMy thoughts exactly. The reason we don't have flying cars is not a lack of innovation, but rather that we don't really want them in their feasible form.