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Funny you say this on the internet, an innovative (at the time, now it's just taken for granted) communications network funded by the US government for it's fir
by sophacles 4y ago
Funny you say this on the internet, an innovative (at the time, now it's just taken for granted) communications network funded by the US government for it's first decade. On that network you are using a technology (http/html) that was inveted at CERN (a large government funded research institute) in Europe.
These two things together have widely been credited with changing the world.
- prottog 4y agoInventing a technology and building a profitable business on top of it are very different things that require very different skill-sets. Besides, there is no evidence to suggest that private money cannot fund basic research of the type that the government does.
- PuppyTailWags 4y ago> there is no evidence to suggest that private money cannot fund basic research of the type that the government does. The evidence is that it doesn't. Pharma companies rake in the money a ton but they're not the ones discovering new drugs, they're just the ones who ferry it to market.
- LunaSea 4y agoCurrent machine learning state of the art would like to disagree.
- isleyaardvark 4y agoI couldn't help thinking about the space race, myself. That was a puzzling assertion.