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by branchan 2425 days ago
It’s likely that your work and life has greatly benefited from technologies that originated from the military.
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That's true, but:

1. My life (and more so, the life of many around me) has greatly suffered from the operation of military bodies. 2. Those technologies could have, instead, been developed in civilian spaces, had the world, especially the great powers, not been so militarized. We might have had some difference in emphasis in what technologies get developed faster of course.

Do you use the internet? GPS? Where do you think those technologies come from?