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The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.

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[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah metaverse and crypto are such innovate projects that will really change the world and not just more the same bullshit cash grabs.

Really undermining your own argument.

[-] DaGeek247@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

You completely missed the point there, damn. He's saying those things are very likely to be bad investments.

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

No I get the point. But showing they make make stupid decisions doesn't prove capitalism drives innovation, because those ideas aren't innovative.

[-] DaGeek247@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

Innovative ideas are rarely smart ideas.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 1 points 9 months ago

Not saying those will change anything but I'm pretty sure there was people saying the same as you about electricity, radio, phone and the internet.

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