Or, what if it really is simple to recreate, but we can't do it because we try too hard, in a wrong way? If points 2 - 4 are the keys to recreating something PARC-like (and I believe they are), then the problem is pretty obvious - those, especially 2, are the points which most companies try to avoid.
Keeping smart people on basic income with no obligations sounds like unprofessional. Like something we do with children, not with adults. Adults need to have deadlines. Their goals should be related to how their company will make money. Everything not related to company making money is not important and should not be done at worktime. -- It's because bullshit like this we don't get much real innovation. Companies, and even whole societies, don't feel like subsidizing a playground for smart adults, that occasionally spawns ideas, which usually can't be monetized directly or entirely.
But we need that because real inventions happen in context of a problem, whether real or invented, or sometimes after the fact. The problem needs to be a terminal value for this to work. That is, "Solving X" is a good problem, "Making money by solving X" is a very bad problem. And if you put "Making money" as an input to the invention process, you get shit like obnoxious ads, disguised Ponzi schemes and growth hacking.
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Or, what if it really is simple to recreate, but we can't do it because we try too hard, in a wrong way? If points 2 - 4 are the keys to recreating something PARC-like (and I believe they are), then the problem is pretty obvious - those, especially 2, are the points which most companies try to avoid.
Keeping smart people on basic income with no obligations sounds like unprofessional. Like something we do with children, not with adults. Adults need to have deadlines. Their goals should be related to how their company will make money. Everything not related to company making money is not important and should not be done at worktime. -- It's because bullshit like this we don't get much real innovation. Companies, and even whole societies, don't feel like subsidizing a playground for smart adults, that occasionally spawns ideas, which usually can't be monetized directly or entirely.
But we need that because real inventions happen in context of a problem, whether real or invented, or sometimes after the fact. The problem needs to be a terminal value for this to work. That is, "Solving X" is a good problem, "Making money by solving X" is a very bad problem. And if you put "Making money" as an input to the invention process, you get shit like obnoxious ads, disguised Ponzi schemes and growth hacking.