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gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

“Companies aren’t innovating anymore and it’s costing the economy”

companies aren’t innovating anymore because physical limits have been reached. Moore’s law holds no longer true. Transistors can’t be packed more tightly into space anymore while also making the computer chip cheaper at the same time.

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irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
There’s lots of things that could be innovated without faster processors. I mean if we’re just talking cell phones, adding a camera was an innovation, adding a touch screen and eventually touch keyboards that actually worked. These things were aided by faster processors, but not directly dependent on them. But these could be totally unrelated devices to phones or even computing at all. Innovation across the board including med-tech, business models, city planning, and tons of other industries have suffered from privatization, deregulation, and leading then to consolidation and thus little need to compete and thus little need to innovate.

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t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Packing more transistors into the same space is not the same as “innovation”. There’s more innovation in late-90s-early-2000s handheld Windows CE 3.0 devices than there are between modern smartphone designs.

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