[hkt]

The history of computing is intimately tied with government investment and academic research. Hence ARPAnet and ALOHA. The impetus for world changing innovation tends to come from governments trying to improve things that are structurally inefficient.

[seanw444]

Let's take a look at where the exponential growth of technology kicked off, and when the first actually almost-free-market began. Hmm. Quite a strong correlation.

[hkt]

Is there even a free market today? Has there ever been? Just looking at telecoms, it is clear that they're monopolists.