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toastpotent:

if you ever feel stupid remember that kodak used to hold almost 90% of all camera sales in the US but fell off the face of the earth because in 1975 they created the first self-contained digital camera which would have been market-breaking but decided to trash the project because they figured that digital photography was a phase that people would grow out of, only to go out of business because they were the only company that wouldn’t commericalize on digital cameras

@iamoutofideas “capitalism promotes innovation!”

Kinda similar to how 3D printing is 40 year old technology, but the reason it’s big now is because the patent finally expired

yes sir! see also: wireless charging