Supposedly it is not compatible with any lower except the ones his company make . <| sep |> Where does most innovation occur historically ? Government funding . When it does occur in industry it is from innovators who are wage slaves to private interests . I am a scientist working in industry and my bosses are MBAs and economists who don ' t know anything about tech beyond what makes them more profit . So rather than working on developing technology that benefits all we develop data mining to create better marketing . You speak of workers accepting technology but in a socialist state shouldn ' t they be the one ' s creating the innovation themselves ? Workers innovate now though . Market leaders do not innovate . Additionally , market pressures create a specific type of innovation . But if they are well paid , happy , and taken care of , why would they bother ? To reduce the amount of menial toiling labor that they have to do giving them more time to focus on their own selfdevelopment . Can we really expect that kind of innovation would have come from well paid and happy phone operators ? Under communism technology reduces the number of hours one has to work but does not reduce the benefit one is able to extract from the system . Why wouldn ' t people want to work less ?