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> If I could summarize your point in a more even handed way, it would be that the view that government is a slow moving, inefficient behemoth, is disproved by i
by dguido 12y ago
> If I could summarize your point in a more even handed way, it would be that the view that government is a slow moving, inefficient behemoth, is disproved by its role in stimulating progress in Silicon Valley.
I'll take it!
> Looking at the second video you posted ... It looked like a bunch of specific technologies with very obvious military applications
This is similar to the government's needs / investments in Silicon Valley that Steve Blank profiled. At the time, it's clear what they are needed for (missiles, planes, radar, etc). Later though...
- swatow 12y agoThe current batch of government sponsored technology seems different to me. With radar and transistor technology they were doing something that was fundamental (perhaps some hindsight bias here, but that's my opinion anyway). The new technologies are just putting together existing technologies. The fundamental research is things like the work on neural networks being done at Google, Baidu etc.
- fnordfnordfnord 12y agoFor all we know the NSA may have made some interesting advances in computing or mathematics, and the CIA have probably advanced optics and image processing by a few generations. Unfortunately for us, neither of them are sharing.