This completely misses the concept that the technology doesn’t just create itself without investment. SOMEONE has to invest for that progress to be made. It’s why I always hated the application of this to tech.
History often has cases where the surrounding context/infrastructure/market/culture just wasn't suitable for an invention to take off--so it fails--and then somebody 5-100 years later tries something almost the same thing and it becomes a wild success and they get all the credit for it.
For example, look at the AT&T Picturephone from ~1964. [0] Even if someone from today time-traveled with the benefit of ~60 years of economic and technological hindsight... do you think a strategy of "just keep investing--somebody has to" would been enough to make the video-phone a widespread and profitable thing in any reasonable timeframe?
I'm pretty sure you'd go quite bankrupt first, just trying to stay solvent while making hundreds of other enabling-inventions and cost-savings in a wide range of fields while completely replacing global infrastructure.
Just because something else in civilization might somehow help someday isn't enough to make it part of "the investment" which a company or individual is deciding whether to make or abandon for a different goal they are focused on.
You are not doing that.
[1]: https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/2020-07/Good_Faith...
^ Go read the comment guidelines. Really read them.
I dare you (rhetorically, not really: I won't read any further replies from you so save your breath) to then assert with a straight face that you've been paying even a lick of heed to a single one of them.
With this in mind, I am unwilling to engage with you further on the matter-- but I will say in closing that I genuinely hope that you may someday find true peace and self-acceptance.
I don't mean this flippantly: you'll truly be lots happier if you can eventually let go of the compulsive need to "win" every argument or exchange and learn to actually listen to others with an open mind.
Where's dang at?
Moreover, technology is created as spillover effect from investments in other areas (That aren't speculative). CUDA is only possible because Nvidia was supported by gaming revenue for a decade. Without CUDA, there is no alexnet, and no deep learning boom will happen if we are still on CPUs or google's proprietary TPUs.
That is the investment and it was no small price. JUST is carrying a ton of weight here.
I hate it and I hate the arrogance of essays like this. They dive deeply into entirely missing the point.