Re:The death of corporate research labs
by AmericanChopper on Thursday May 21, 2020 @05:01AM
(#23256273)
But you're not describing the pace of innovation at all. You're just describing your own judgements about the value of modern innovations. What would COVID-19 look like in 1970? I bet there wouldn't be many people working from home...
[ Parent
| on HN ]
COVID-1970 would be a lot slower in the spread due to much less globalized world. The West probably would still not have experienced it, neither the Soviet Bloc due to then fresh Sino-Soviet split and heavily militarized border.
Re:The death of corporate research labs
by AmericanChopper on Thursday May 21, 2020 @08:59AM
(#23257810)
I think the Spanish flu might not agree with that assessment. Both plagues also did a pretty good job of spreading to pretty much all territories that had any form of contact at the time.
IMO the better example was 1957 Asian flu pandemic. It also started in China in December-February, but was not yet registered in the West as of May.
It also never crossed the Iron Curtain into Warsaw Pact countries.