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Uhh the web technology predates ad-tech. CERN was not funded by advertising. Also you say no ad-tech would mean a world without JavaScript like it’s a bad thin

• deeviant 6y ago
  A world without ad-tech or JavaScript, tell me more of this Utopia.
• mpclark 6y ago
  The way I heard it, Cern could be considered to be indirectly financed by the war machine as it was essentially provided as a playground for Europe’s atomic scientists to stop any one nation running away with the ball.
  • iguy 6y ago
    Yes there is some truth in this, I think. It seemed entirely plausible (at least to politicians) in the 50s that the scientists might well come up with something else on the scale of the bomb.
  • ncmncm 6y ago
    Similarly ITER and the whole fusion research project is a jobs program to maintain a population of high-neutron-flux physicists to draw on for weapons work. (There will be no fusion power.) But has anything useful spun off? Maybe plasma dynamics maths. Inertial confinement drove development of short-pulse lasers, which are good for research into chemical reaction dynamics.