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Of course science is profitable and corporations spend a lot of money on and make a lot of money from research. That doesn't change the fact that a lot of curre
by Ma8ee 13y ago
Of course science is profitable and corporations spend a lot of money on and make a lot of money from research. That doesn't change the fact that a lot of current technology would probably not exist if it hadn't been funded by governments in the first place. From the top of my head: GPS, the Internet.
- notdrunkatall 13y agoTechnology is a progression of ideas. GPS and the internet were very low-hanging fruit on the tree. The government was just the entity which was the first to reach up and grab it. If they had not, someone else almost surely would have invented GPS and the ideas that underlie the internet.
- Ma8ee 13y agoThe point is that the initial investments were so big that no one would have dared. Other examples: space flight and nuclear power.