Germans speak German; wow people store information and take up the routines their understanding of that information implies. Field test complete.
Social science is based on observing the same world as “hard” science. We already have plenty of models and theory about information transmission.
Human biology retains information it’s structure encounters; social science solved.
Wrapping hard science in cultural semantics does not exclude the hard science explanation from being the right explanation. The social science explanation is superfluous and almost intentionally manipulative; professors will give extra fake points for jumping higher. But if the fake points are of little real world value, people don’t care. It’s a parlor trick that works on the ignorant, not a fundamental cognitive function of everyone.
Apple was famous for taking forever to design “their copy” of popular thing.
Then Facebook and the rest became staples of iDevices, Apple focused on stupid slim design rather than pushing the product envelope, and risk their yearly mobile cash cow.
Their EarPods were not exactly the first BT earbuds, HomePod was well after Alexa. Subscription video and games?
For the most part they are doing the same with hardware; changing up housing but emphasizing their own chips.
MS aped Apple laptop quality with Surface, bombed mightily with Windows Phone, is doing fine with Azure; again all products that came as a response to others.
We’re beyond the bootstrap phase of technology. Something truly innovative to the user is still in some lab.
My money is on bio-tech mutant; custom drugs and high res simulation to embed an experience so real you think it happened. I dunno something that’s focused on more than b2b apps/ads deals and phone update cycles.
I mean there is no point to any of this. There’s no higher calling for people. One generation being addicted to computers as we know them is not necessarily a forever trend for the species. It’s just math. shrug
Seems like simple logic; harder to see a return on a billion dollars invested with prices at 2010 levels. Helps keep unemployment low as people feel the heat to hustle harder; worker insecurity being a long time policy of the Fed: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o...