I suppose to some extent we should have surmised that this would happen. That is, that the process of invention, by and large, becomes more cumbersome and more needing of resources as the inventions made become more complicated. I could go home tonight and build a new model for a working toilet. If I wanted to of course. I don't. Equally, if I went home tonight, and even if I needed to, never mind wanted to, I could NEVER build the next greatest computer chip. It is physically impossible. 8, 10, 12 nanometers? You lose me by a factor of a thousand at least. You need to be a large corporation, with billions of dollars of equipment to be able to create then next big advances in computer chips. The same is true for most things today. All? Not quite. But most. Certainly more so than ever before. There's really nothing of consequence to the world today that I can improve, alter, build off of, or be inspi...