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Technology 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
by notdrunkatall 13y ago
Technology 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.