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But I think it's fair to say that our current technological progress would at least lag a couple of centuries behind without armed conflict and the resulting ne
by folli 8y ago
But I think it's fair to say that our current technological progress would at least lag a couple of centuries behind without armed conflict and the resulting need to be faster/more destructive/better protected/better armed/... than your respective enemy.
- hrktb 8y agoI see your point, but we had tremendous progress in the last half of the 20th century that was not a consequence of direct armed conflicts. I agree that political tension and the threat of conflict (in particular the whole Cold War dynamic) helped push a lot of innovations, but it's only tension, not bombing or killing of whole populations (it also happened, but I can't see any huge progress coming directly from that)