>>88691593You're looking at it wrong. IBM, Intel, and other computer giants COULD have pioneered CGI films, but it's not like it was a race to the finish like Leibniz and Newton inventing calculus. To this day IBM and Intel made no concrete effort to create CGI films, nor did they ever (as far as public knowledge goes) made any effort.
Pixar led the way through hard work, dedication, and talent that started in the '70s and culminated in the mid '90s with their first feature-length film. It's not "luck", it was years of hard work.
That's the point, it's the dedicated smart people who make progress.
Every other phone company COULD have made the iPhone, but they were too busy cutting costs with resistive touchscreens and plastic toothpic styluses and low-resolution displays to actually deliver a decent user experience.
Nuclear programs are a good example; it's not the masses who develop nuclear weapons, it's the few smart and dedicated physicists who know what they're doing. Whether it's one physicist or 16 teams in different countries doesn't matter, it's still a tiny minority that forges forward while the rest of the world can't even pronounce "nuclear".
Again not in an Ayn Rand kind of way, of course the rest of society is needed to support these achievements and the nuclear physicist needs the farmer to grow food so the physicist has time to study. But in the end there are a fuckton more farmers than nuclear physicists.
