Note how long ago these devices were invented.
What’s worrisome is that our technicians and even engineers rarely attain this level of mechanisation at a general level, some 100 years after.
We stick to hoes and cutlasses, still do almost everything manually, have no engrained basic engineering infrastructure at the grassroots, and even talk right from presidential level of a 21st century political party, of reviving ancient grazing routes through private properties.
Unless something changes fundamentally from foundation level, we’ll NEVER industrialise nor develop as a country, no matter how much we TALK about it.
We really MUST do something that really turns the corner. And government is not as well placed to do it, as the private sector is.
Simply amazing!
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No pressure to do anything like that. Why should a man with many children and hired labourers worry about mechanized farming? Why should an engineer worry about fabricating what no one is needing and the engineer can make money in so many ways without the risk of inventing something that no government will protect?
As long as intellectual property isn’t valued or protected no one is going to work at it.
No one is needing?
We all certainly need it, but simply import it, because local alternatives either don’t exist or are so inferior in quality or cost too much.
risk of inventing something that no government will protect?
Invention is a distant stage 2. Most of these things are generic; in fact entered the public realm some 100 years ago. The first thing is to simply reverse engineer. Copy. Deploy. Domesticate. Improve. Then after that, you get to the invention stage.
As for government protection, our patent ecology is healthy. And the courts play their part.
The correct diagnosis is that the private sector lacks initiative more than the public sector does. None of the 4 industrial revolutions was led by the public sector.
Instead of passing the buck, the private sector should wake up; and we’ll take it from there.