(November 29, 2018 at 9:47 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(November 29, 2018 at 9:45 am)Brian37 Wrote: If phone makers stuck to old technology we'd still be using rotary phones. Nobody is suggesting we end competition, but to get big corporations to move away from old technology. Car companies threw a fit when Nadar exposed how bad their technology was. Cars didn't stop getting made. It isn't a matter of ending any business, but getting business to adapt to better data and better technology.
True enough, car manufacturing didn't stop, but how many car-makers financed horse-and-buggy factories?
Boru
Huh? Not sure what you are saying. Ford doesn't make model T's anymore, just like I am typing on a laptop and not an iron key typewriter.
We could have been off of fossil fuels a long time ago if the world had cared enough to listen to scientists instead of being greedy. We still have the opportunity to do something, but we are at the point now that we have no choice as a planet.