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In the USA, many technologies come out of government research labs, but almost exclusively from the defense space. As far as I know this type of thing hasn’t re
by ed25519FUUU 5y ago
In the USA, many technologies come out of government research labs, but almost exclusively from the defense space. As far as I know this type of thing hasn’t really produced anything of note, but sometimes it does affect policy.
- Communitivity 5y agoIt all depends on the amount of funding and top-level support. Many technologies get created within DoD and rest of US government, with most not achieving widespread adoption (I'm using that as criteria for being of note). Some do, such as the Library of Congress classification system that replaced the Dewey decimal system in many libraries (https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/ https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/) . Also, the internet, which grew out of Arpanet project (https://www.internetsociety.org/internet/history-internet/brief-history-internet/ https://www.internetsociety.org/internet/history-internet/br...)