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Wars have accelerated technology for 2 reasons. The first is that the governments were willing to allocate vast amounts of money and resources for the developm
by adrian_b 5mo ago
Wars have accelerated technology for 2 reasons.
The first is that the governments were willing to allocate vast amounts of money and resources for the development of new materials that would give them advantages over the opponents.
During normal market conditions, it would have been impossible to secure so much money for research whose results were uncertain to generate financial profits.
The second reason is that during wars the global commerce routes were perturbed, so many materials that normally were cheap and easily available became expensive or impossible to procure, which could block the production or the usage of certain kinds of weapons and military equipment.
Therefore it became necessary to find substitute materials, which was the origin of many research projects, e.g. nylon instead of silk, synthetic elastomers instead of natural rubber, synthetic gasoline instead of gasoline extracted from fossil oil and so on.
- margalabargala 5mo agoThanks, Claude. The premise was never unclear, the complaint is about sentence structure.
- adrian_b 5mo agoYou are delusional if you believe that you can distinguish AI-generated texts from human-generated texts, because obviously you can't.
- margalabargala 5mo agoI didn't try to, I just make assumptions about long walls of text that manage to entirely miss the point. Assuming you actually put time into what you wrote would be the less charitable interpretation.
- Arainach 5mo ago> Is it war in general that accelerates material technology, or simply WWII The reply did not miss the point, it was addressing a question directly posed in the original comment.
- margalabargala 5mo agoIt didn't, though, the question you quoted is a rhetorical question posed to point out the awkwardness of the original piece's phrasing. By taking the question seriously, you and the person I replied to both have missed the point.
- defrost 5mo agoAs the poser of the obviously rhetorical question in question ... for many speakers of English as a first language seeped in the conventions of English conversation, storytelling, and literature it was a clear juxtaposition intended to single out the ridiculous proposition that technology advances during wartime are somehow tied to WWII alone. Have a look at the original sentence again, it's absolutely a clunker, very probably the product of a clanker (or of an ESL human).
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