Agreed. 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 poten

Agreed. 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.