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Old Jan 4th, 2006, 06:13 PM       
You don't invent something until you need it. No one was just sitting around thinking "wouldn't it be cool if computers could instantaneously communicate with each other". It was some lab geeks in the Pentagon going "shit this work is hard. If the machines could just talk to each other, it would cut our workload in half".

These innovations usally have some pressing need surrounding them, and since when is there a more pressing need than life and eath, which is pretty much what the military deals in?

Don't get me wrong, there have been tons of non-military pushed advances, but it just seems thats where the most of them come frome, funding or not.

Of course, we humans also have this wierd tendency to put most of our creativity into finding new ways to kill each other. All the cool toys are by-products.
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