Re: [WAR] Exponential difference in power

From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sun Mar 23 2003 - 22:16:05 MST

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    Technotranscendence wrote:
    > On Sunday, March 23, 2003 8:33 PM spike66 spike66@attbi.com wrote:
    >
    >>...Altho you see a lot of
    >>humvees on the road these days, we found that in
    >>general military equipment is not highly adaptable
    >>for civilian use.
    >
    >...what about GPS? I know, it's only one example...
    >
    > Dan

    Certainly there are shining exceptions like GPS, and
    I suppose we could also argue that the internet of
    which we are so fond was initially conceived as a
    means of communications in the event of a nuclear
    war, in which case it is kinda like an adaption of
    mil-tech. Aircraft technology has always been pushed
    forward by military needs, along with vertical take-off
    and landing. Eventually commercial forces became the
    driver, but computers were initially developed to meet
    the needs of the war fighters. The interstate highway
    system was built to move war machines from coast to
    coast.

    Paraphrasing an old saying: if necessity is the mother
    of invention then war is its brutal father.

    spike



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