Most profit in the fastest way from the consumer

The pressure from the previously ever-present energy of the folks out there obsessively following the "how to make the most profit in the fastest way from the consumer, doing the least work to do so" and the long guiding path of technological development resulting in a reached destination appropriate to that goal type, which is not the same as the end point of pure research curiosity to see what is there; then seeking useful applications of what found, based on the needs of human civilization, versus of the path that would have been reached if the guiding items were "what provides the optimum customer benefit for the least money and time effort of the supplier and customer, and in aggregate provides all the possible needs of customers."