substantial-freud t1_j2ar26l wrote on December 30, 2022 at 9:44 PM

Reply to comment by ANOKNUSA in TIL Douglas Engelbart never received any royalties for the invention of the mouse. In an interview he said "SRI (Stanford Research Institute) patented the mouse, but they had no idea of its value. Some years later it was known that they had licensed it to Apple Computer for something like $40,000." by whoiskamalsingh

“It simply isn’t possible to create something so complex, consisting of so many essential yet disparate components, in an economic milieu that prioritizes short-term monetary gain over long-term societal contribution,” he writes, while living in a society that prioritizes short-term monetary gain over long-term societal contribution. “Also, I am an inanimate object. I don’t even exist.”