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By 2000 the military involvement in the internet was long since history. If you want to talk about the time when government investment was what mattered you hav
by nvm0n2 3y ago
By 2000 the military involvement in the internet was long since history. If you want to talk about the time when government investment was what mattered you have to go back ~35 years or more.
- edmundsauto 3y agoMy point was that large investments, especially in infrastructure, need decades of time to bake. So investments made this century could just be cooking. I also suspect the push by the uS right wing have impacted the number of great government innovations. The federal role nowadays seems to be to do the core research that is not directly profitable, then transfer control to companies to reap the rewards. (Because of the often incorrect “the government can’t do anything right” narrative pushed in the states)
- musicale 3y agoThis really seems to have worked out kind of OK on one hand, although sometimes I wish that the public had more ownership of the technology that we funded.