[ChuckMcM]

You miss the point, imagine you're in a company that makes billions buying electrons for nanocents and selling them for millicents. Now most of the people in the company are not part of the money making apparatus, so what do they do? They think up new things. But that is hard, it is actually much easier to prove impossible thing is impossible.

To its credit you get self driving cars out of this sort of strategy, and you also get less PR worthy work :-)