P'Tachk! The corporate elite and its respective governments are just like the Borg, and honourable warriors everywhere shall fight them accordingly.
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As well, there's actually very little innovation inside of corporations. There's too much managerial inertia, too much fear of risk for any innovation to take hold. As a result, big corporations go around buying up small innovative companies to obtain new ideas. It all reminds me of the Borg on Startrek.
MajQa! Cougyr! This is sooooo true.
I remember reading an article in Omni magazine about ten years ago that quoted various reports showing that most scientific and medical discoveries and technological developments came from university under-grads and professors and other researchers working on largely shoe-string government grants.
According to the BC Inventors Society, the majority of practical inventions and commercial innovations come from individuals and small groups, mostly of modest means (as in working class), not from big business.
Even within the corporate dictatorship, where to the new technologies and break-throughs come from? Salaried engineers, scientists and researchers--some of them unionized, like the auto industry--in other words, employees.
Capitalists, senior bureaucrats, investment clubs, etc. account for practically nothing in terms of discoveries. They are as useless and irrelevant to innovation as they are to production, distribution and market creation.
Folks here are right. Bill Gates did one lousy thing in his entire life: he developed a particular version of a disc operating system already in use, which he called MS DOS, and managed to get it leased to the huge IBM corporation, that was looking to market a personal desktop computer, as opposed to the mainframe systems it was selling.
None of these players realized, by their own subsequent admissions, that they were on the verge of the PC revolution of the 1980s and 1990s.
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posted 29 November 2004 06:42 AM
