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Re:What's the Least Impactful Way to Spend $300,000,000? by coldtea on Friday April 14, 2023 @06:54AM (#35567954)
Huge impact technologies like the steam engine, the factory line, electricity, and so on, that are not just incremental steps, things nobody asked for with minimal utility ("smart fridge") or glorified stupidification engines (the social web).
Re:What's the Least Impactful Way to Spend $300,000,000? by adrianN on Friday April 14, 2023 @08:48AM (#35568963)
Steam engines existed in ancient greece. It took a couple of incremental steps until they were good enough to kickstart the industrial revolution.