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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (879381)8/11/2015 1:41:04 PM
From: Cautious_Optimist  Read Replies (1) of 1570554
 
Nope. Exactly the opposite is true.

What killed the disruptive innovators on the net was a lack of paying customers. Everyone loved "free" -- and investment capital got burned up - but often after the original investors had sold to fools. For every DOMINANT Google whose "innovation" was selling our privacy before we knew what was happening, there are a hundred better-mousetrap companies that failed.

Also, the dominance of the politically and economically entrenched oligopoly of bandwidth killed innovations. Similar to cellular data, the Telco/ Comcast model kept/keeps America behind. Plenty of people you don't care about cannot afford broadband. True, cheap ubiquity that would have increased the value of the whole pie as universal telephone service once did before the "carriers" became a deregulated racket and conspiracy to collude imperfectly.

Porn could be monetized, so it was a key driver of multimedia and bradband innovation. I guess you could say it created jobs... for porn stars.
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