Re: jobs apocalypse

On Fri, 19 Jul 2024 23:00:37 +0200, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

And many inventions have been done without the government.

Your narrow focus limits your perspective.

"What does the quote "standing on the shoulders of giants" mean?


It is a metaphor of dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants (Latin:
nani gigantum humeris insidentes) and expresses the meaning of
"discovering truth by building on previous discoveries". This concept
has been dated to the 12th century and, according to John of
Salisbury, is attributed to Bernard of Chartres."

Standing on the shoulders of giants - Wikipedia

In US, federal and state governments have supported educational
infrastructure in many different ways.

Inventors stand on the shoulders of giants, and federal/state
governments have subsidized inventors' education.
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How the Government Helped Spur the Microchip Industry

It sits at the heart of virtually every piece of modern IT and
communications technology, including desktops, laptops, smartphones
and tablets: the humble microchip.

Though it seems impossible to imagine life -- much less federal IT --
without the microchip, it was not always inevitable that it would
become such an integral element of daily activity.

Demand from NASA and the Air Force gave a major boost to the fledgling
semiconductor industry in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2018/09/how-government-helped-spur-microchip-industry