Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: JAB Newsgroups: misc.news.internet.discuss Subject: Re: jobs apocalypse Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 19:40:56 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <348a13ae-4f32-aa34-d37c-5e8b851b253d@example.net> <0485c0de-2035-a917-a68e-4e31cec555b9@example.net> Reply-To: JAB MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2024 02:40:57 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e4397f3a87ea98bfc30b9876b4ecff9a"; logging-data="3387479"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+HB3BwCkW76Gv12J0cVpPE" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:95LPH1CNhS7+l/1sO+tTSy/fxy0= Bytes: 2756 On Fri, 19 Jul 2024 23:00:37 +0200, D wrote: >And many inventions have been done without the government. Your narrow focus limits your perspective. "What does the quote "standing on the shoulders of giants" mean? It is a metaphor of dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants (Latin: nani gigantum humeris insidentes) and expresses the meaning of "discovering truth by building on previous discoveries". This concept has been dated to the 12th century and, according to John of Salisbury, is attributed to Bernard of Chartres." Standing on the shoulders of giants - Wikipedia In US, federal and state governments have supported educational infrastructure in many different ways. Inventors stand on the shoulders of giants, and federal/state governments have subsidized inventors' education. =========================== How the Government Helped Spur the Microchip Industry It sits at the heart of virtually every piece of modern IT and communications technology, including desktops, laptops, smartphones and tablets: the humble microchip. Though it seems impossible to imagine life -- much less federal IT -- without the microchip, it was not always inevitable that it would become such an integral element of daily activity. Demand from NASA and the Air Force gave a major boost to the fledgling semiconductor industry in the late 1950s and early 1960s. https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2018/09/how-government-helped-spur-microchip-industry