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I love how this is based on a game. One might argue that software development was really accelerated by games just as the hardware development was accelerated b
by olafduckmark 8y ago
I love how this is based on a game. One might argue that software development was really accelerated by games just as the hardware development was accelerated by the military (by hardware I mean physical stuff, like materials etc.).
- snrji 8y agoHardware development was accelerated by games, too.
- kortilla 8y agoAnd software accelerated by the military (tcp/ip).
- wiz21c 8y agoNow with drones, I think the military are accelerated by video games.
- singularity2001 8y agoWith a pathetic ROI: Had these trillions been invested in academia or startups, the world would surely be much further.
- syntaxing 8y agoNot sure if I entirely agree with this. A lot of the luxuries we have now were enhanced for the military. For instance, airplanes (aileron and jet turbine development), internet, semiconductor, and even PCBs (or mores specifically, the predecessor Hybrids ICs). A good amount of grants actually come from the Navy and Army for research grants in the academia. Though I did go to grad school for Mech Eng so we probably saw more grants from the military because of that.
- bluGill 8y agoThat is a logical fallacy. Sure a lot of things happened because of the military, but what didn't happen because we were busy on the military things. There is no way to know. If we had spent as much on genetic research as we did on the moon landing we could have had fire breathing dragons. Think of all the spin offs from that that we are just starting to see now, we could have had them sooner.
- kemiller 8y agoIt’s true that military necessity has spurred a lot of things, but it sure would be nice if we had the same cultural agreement around basic research without that.
- tomcam 8y agoWhy downvotes?