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Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

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Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

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TechnologyEnglish • 1 year ago

The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea. Head to https://brilliant.org/veritasium to start your free 30-da...

The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.

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And then capitalism that made the company repeatedly ask for him to stop researching it.
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  It’s the opinion of one person at the company. Under socialism there are also people who decide which research deserves funding.

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