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probablyasocialecologist:

serenata-your-neighborhood-lefty:

“Shouldn’t the man who invented the iPhone own his own creation?”

An explanation by anti-capitalist brad pitt.

“Mazzucato lists twelve crucial technologies that make smartphones “smart”: (1) microprocessors;(2) memory chips; (3) solid state hard drives; (4) liquid crystal displays; (5) lithium-based batteries;(6) fast Fourier transform algorithms; (7) the internet; (8) HTTP and HTML protocols; (9) cellular networks; (10) Global Positioning Systems (GPS); (11) touchscreens; and (12) voice recognition. Every last one was supported by the public sector at key stages of development.”

Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski, The People’s Republic of Walmart

“A critical history of technology would show how little any of the inventions [..] are the work of a single individual.”

–Karl Marx, Capital