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Hard sciences have an inherent problem. Building prototypes costs money and there is no undo button. For our final year project, we spent 100k out of our pocket and didn't even get to the part that we wanted to innovate on. Woh alag baat hai ke we won the gold medal. But who knew that there isn't any gold in a gold medal. So effectively useless. Anyways, this problem of costs that can't be undone makes it nearly impossible for individuals to innovate. After spending 10 years of your life on Physics, you have little to nothing to show for it. Because you can't implement it. And so you can't commercialize it. Edison made great inventions, but his true genius was in how he was able finance and commercialize those inventions. Dyson begged companies to finance his designs. No company did. The only reason we have vacuums that don't lose more than half their suction power in their 3rd minute of use is that Dyson bet his life on it. Sold his house and spent his life's savings just to brin

Hardware and Software Home Hardware and Software Hard sciences have an inherent problem. Building prototypes costs money and there is no undo button. For our final year project, we spent 100k out of our pocket and didn't even get to the part that we wanted to innovate on. Woh alag baat hai ke we won the gold medal. But who knew that there isn't any gold in a gold medal. So effectively useless. Anyways, this problem of costs that can't be undone makes it nearly impossible for individuals to innovate. After spending 10 years of your life on Physics, you have little to nothing to show for it. Bec

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