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I hope most of the money goes into high tech secret projects but I suspect a lot of it is just paying off dictators with pallets full of cash.

• mtgx 8y ago
  The whole "military investments have helped tech so much!" is so overhyped. If you had put the same amount of money into research grants, you would've obtained 100x the commercial inventions we eventually got mainly by accident from the military.
  • analognoise 8y ago
    Real tech (hardcore stuff: chips, systems, radios, satellites, supercomputers, etc). If you mean the latest subscription service for cat videos (or "like Uber, but for..." type trash) then no, the military doesn't help with those things.
    • petra 8y ago
      To be fair, OP talked about research grants , not VC for crap.