> All the shit we use is a by product of their first move. This is an overstatement. > A large amount of the technology we find useful was investigated in som

> All the shit we use is a by product of their first move. This is an overstatement. > A large amount of the technology we find useful was investigated in some capacity by the single most well-funded R&D organization in the world to some extent before we knew about it. This is more reasonable. Worth noting the jump you made from G*P's "shit we use" to "Turing awards, Nobel prizes, and Papers" was quite questionable.