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by cybernytrix 3498 days ago
The article is well written but takes a little anti-social view of how things come to be. The private industry is doing a great job of procuring, manufacturing and delivering of consumer goods at affordable prices. However many of these inventions were either discovered by scientist and inventors who either pursued it for purely intellectual reasons or were funded by public money by grants. For example, the Darpa grants were the main cause for the internet today. The article does a great disservice by not giving this aspect its rightful due.
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>The article does a great disservice by not giving this aspect its rightful due.

That's because it has a predetermined agenda, nothing scientific about it.

> For example, the Darpa grants were the main cause for the internet today.

I think computer networks would have been developed without Darpa; as they are done today.