It's so frustrating when people talk about "nudges" from the government and other hands-off, stimulate-free-market-innovation approaches as a response to global warming, because this situation is a perfect example of "market failure"--an intractable problem that cannot be addressed by said free markets
Here's a photo displaying all the government-funded inventions that Apple compiled into its devices, which subsequently everyone clapped at saying "look what the free market did!":
If you wanna know more about this, here's the sources where most of this information is from:
"The Entrepreneurial State" by Mariana Mazzucato (has a pro capitalist bias, though of the Keynesian variety--still an invaluable read though)
"Bit Tyrants" by Rob Larson (easier read written from a socialist perspective, more historical)
@Catsandcatsandcats was just going to suggest Mazzucato for more reading, cheers. Just finishing "The Value of Everything" where this public/collective innovation and risk taking (without any of the entrepreneurial credit) gets just a chapter or so in a larger takedown of finance as "value extractors (rentiers)", agreed it's kinda strange how inside-the-economic-norm she writes while really tearing into current imbalances and origin stories.
@Catsandcatsandcats also, only brief mention in "Value", and getting beyond your research / progress funding point, but I love the implications of her sense that the value in Big Data and Network Effect platforms is not even "my data I should be paid for", but something collectively generated and owing to us all collectively.
@Catsandcatsandcats it started very long ago, with the mouse and GUI stolen from Xerox Park:
@Catsandcatsandcats Can you provide a more specific reference to how/when DARPA created Siri? I'm reluctant to search through the references you give without a better clue ...
It was created by SRI International, formerly the Stanford Research Institute, here's the basic info from their site:
I dont have the book on me now but if I recall it also involved CIA funding--I can get you more info later if you want when I have the book in my hands.
@Catsandcatsandcats That link should be enough ... many thanks, much appreciated.
@Catsandcatsandcats people think of technology like it being mystically created from pure creativity or insight, when it's really an iterative process built on the work of other people
the idea of exclusive rights or private industry brilliance don't make a lot of sense when you consider the nature of actual technological development
@Catsandcatsandcats Not even all of them, e.g. WiFi developed by CSIRO.