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silicon valley is a DIRECT result of the secondary effect of radar systems. https://web.stanford.edu/group/ree/archives/archive08/usa/presentations/Secret_Hist

silicon valley is a DIRECT result of the secondary effect of radar systems. https://web.stanford.edu/group/ree/archives/archive08/usa/presentations/Secret_History_Stanford_Sierra_REE https://web.stanford.edu/group/ree/archives/archive08/usa/pr... shrug. It's always hard to guess?

black_puppydog 4y ago
Military research has produced a lot of secondary inventions, sure. But look at its funding as well. There's a reason why so many companies work in that sector: the amount of money in there is just huge. So of course that sector will produce more byproducts in absolute terms.
IshKebab 4y ago
Okay? He's not saying secondary effects don't exist. He's saying you don't get more secondary effects from projects whose primary purpose is highly speculative.