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Oddly enough, "the war machine" in particular has driven R&D and science for thousands of years. I encourage you to look into the technologies that DARPA and ot

by gen3 7y ago

Oddly enough, "the war machine" in particular has driven R&D and science for thousands of years. I encourage you to look into the technologies that DARPA and others have had a hand in creating. Not to mention they fund things like cancer research already. Smartphones have given millions of people access to information they would never have. Smartphones are the sum of 30 years of computer R&D, making them cheap enough that Kenya has more then 80% of there population online [1] The issues you listed would take significantly more time then “five years” to cure. I think there is room to argue how defense money is distributed and used. [0] First link when searching for DARPA inventions: https://www.itpro.co.uk/technology/34730/10-amazing-darpa-inventions https://www.itpro.co.uk/technology/34730/10-amazing-darpa-in... [1] https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2001273507/smartphone-adoption-puts-kenya-at-top-of-internet-penetration-in-africa https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2001273507/...

tomaszs 7y ago
Yes - Army had impact on development. War - didnt. Even if we discuss research caused by wars i am 100% sure these would be made a lots faster without an actual war. And also - its natural army attracts some bright minds because sometimes only army has resources and money to fund research. So as long as it is used for good cause it makes sense as a symbiosis
bluGill 7y ago
That is a falicy. Because we got something you notice it, but you have no idea what we missed because we were focused on what we got instead of something else. Maybe we would get smart phones sooner in some other alternative universe, we don't know. If the money spent on space and military was spent on genetic engineering we might not have smart phones, but we would have fire breathing dragons!
justin66 7y ago
> First link when searching for DARPA inventions: The article only mentiones in passing - ARPA, as it was called back then - that DARPA was once ARPA, and doesn't explore how DARPA's rate of invention tanked after the passage of the Mansfield Amendment. This is a longer story that's relevant to the war is great for research! claim.

by gen3 7y ago

tomaszs 7y ago

Yes - Army had impact on development. War - didnt. Even if we discuss research caused by wars i am 100% sure these would be made a lots faster without an actual war. And also - its natural army attracts some bright minds because sometimes only army has resources and money to fund research. So as long as it is used for good cause it makes sense as a symbiosis

bluGill 7y ago

That is a falicy. Because we got something you notice it, but you have no idea what we missed because we were focused on what we got instead of something else. Maybe we would get smart phones sooner in some other alternative universe, we don't know. If the money spent on space and military was spent on genetic engineering we might not have smart phones, but we would have fire breathing dragons!

justin66 7y ago

> First link when searching for DARPA inventions: The article only mentiones in passing - ARPA, as it was called back then - that DARPA was once ARPA, and doesn't explore how DARPA's rate of invention tanked after the passage of the Mansfield Amendment. This is a longer story that's relevant to the war is great for research! claim.