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Re:Why things might have taken so long by rayalez on Thursday January 04, 2018 @09:13AM (#16070405)
But now there's so much more that you can do alone.

Write an app, and you've made a new tool instantly usable by any person on earth.

Come up with a simple device and 3d print it.

Lack skills to do any of that - instantly hire unlimited number of experts. Lack knowledge? Access it instantly.

If we're talking about simple low hanging fruit inventions that can be made by a single person, the search space is much larger than the stuff you can do with your bare hands alone in the forest.

Re:Why things might have taken so long by sametmax on Thursday January 04, 2018 @12:04PM (#16071930)
That's not helping for invention, that's just compensating for the hardening of innovation.