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> but presumably it'd have been several orders of magnitude cheaper to just directly invest in that tech instead of building a weapon. Technology doesn't inven
by tomnipotent 4y ago
> but presumably it'd have been several orders of magnitude cheaper to just directly invest in that tech instead of building a weapon.
Technology doesn't invent itself, there needs to be a problem you're actively trying to solve. There's no guarantee these things would have been discovered if money had just been spent on research for the sake of research.
- throwaway894345 4y agoAgreed. There’s no way the government in the 80s would have invested in the Internet without a defense pretext, for example, because no one understood the potential it would unlock. Similarly, there would be virtually no space exploration or satellites (or any of the other significant advancements) apart from the space race.