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Re:America Lacks Meaningful Innovation by chailatte on Friday May 13, 2011 @04:38PM (#2546093)
So you're saying that if people just keep making photo sharing apps (flickr, facebook, color, instagram)....eventually those people will invent space travel or nuclear fission?
Re:America Lacks Meaningful Innovation by dxbydt on Friday May 13, 2011 @05:06PM (#2546187)
Heh. That was quite funny, the way you put it.

Seriously though, the chap who figures out controlled nuclear fusion will quite likely work out of a physics lab in a University both of which are funded by the ad dollars I you & the rest of humanity spend on facebook.