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Re: That would be the result
Posted by Reality (more from Reality) on Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:37:54
In Reply to: Re: That would be the result, Eric Law, Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:10:50

Queen Isabella was acting as a private investor when she sponsored Columbus. If she had not invested, Columbus' brothers and colleagues were headed to other potential investors in places such as the English court. The royal houses back then were playing with their own money

The Arpanet to Internet story is getting really old. The statist telling of it ignores two very important facts:

(1) It's the massive private investment that made internet accessible to 99+% of the population who do not have offices in the few dozen military and research institutions served by the Arpanet.

(2) If the funds had not been taken away by taxation and talents had not been hired away by government, there's no saying the private sector would not have done it. When telephone and telegraph technology came along a few decades earlier, in the absence of government funding or coordination, several very extensive T&T networks developed worldwide

Furthermore, if you are familiar with the DARPA, you'd know hat DARPA does not do research or development on its own. It's an organization of only of a little over 100 people! and have their fingers in all kinds of fields of research. DARPA's primary task is spotting and coordinating promising technology researches that might have military ramifictions. In other words, they work with mostly private sector innovative companies. For example, the ARPANET was a field experiment on the packet-switching idea invented at RAND Corporation designed to let computer networks survive nuclear attacks via distributed computing with packet-switching multi-path information transceiving. DARPA was founded precisely because it already became obvious in the 1950's that government's own military-specific weapons R&D facilities suffered from institutional narrow vision.

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OT: Space shuttle, Eric Law, Fri, 8 Jul 2011 05:53:10
- Please..., Eric Law, Mon, 11 Jul 2011 04:46:52
  - Re: Please..., EGD , Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:20:06
- Re: OT: Space shuttle, brick8 , Fri, 8 Jul 2011 12:09:07
- I'll cheer..., nwas, Fri, 8 Jul 2011 08:34:19
  - It's been quite a while, AdamB , Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:33:51
    - Re: It's been quite a while, Reality, Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:49:37
  - I guess we should all still be living in caves......, MI-Roger , Sat, 9 Jul 2011 13:06:57
    - That would be the result, Reality, Sat, 9 Jul 2011 13:56:06
      - Re: That would be the result, Eric Law, Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:10:50
        Re: That would be the result, Reality, Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:37:54
        Re: That would be the result, James, Mon, 11 Jul 2011 06:51:50
        Re: That would be the result, Reality, Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:30:03
        Perhaps..., Eric Law, Mon, 11 Jul 2011 04:43:19
        Re: Perhaps..., TML, Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:40:16
        Yeah, Eric Law, Wed, 13 Jul 2011 04:12:02
        Made up facts indeed, Reality, Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:03:30
        Re: Perhaps..., Reality, Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:43:36
        Furthermore, Reality, Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:20:09
        Re: Perhaps..., Reality, Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:06:32
        Uh..., Eric Law, Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:39:02
        Re: Uh..., Reality, Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:08:54
        Re: Uh..., kkelley, Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:12:11
        Timinger problem, Reality, Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:57:22
        Re: Timinger problem, kkelley, Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:31:49
        "I took the initiative in creating the internet", Reality, Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:27:25
        Re: "I took the initiative in creating the internet", kkelley, Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:46:08
        Re: "I took the initiative in creating the internet", Reality, Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:44:26
        Re: "I took the initiative in creating the internet", kkelley, Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:31:47
        Re: "I took the initiative in creating the internet", Reality, Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:01:11
  - Agree!, Reality, Fri, 8 Jul 2011 16:36:58
    - Microwave, Comsat, GPS, Reality, Fri, 8 Jul 2011 19:11:59
      - oversimplifications..., James, Sat, 9 Jul 2011 06:38:03
        Valuation depends on alternatives, Reality, Sat, 9 Jul 2011 07:15:30
        if NASA had not existed..., James, Sat, 9 Jul 2011 10:18:32
        Re: if NASA had not existed..., Reality, Sat, 9 Jul 2011 13:48:37
        Re: if NASA had not existed..., AdamB , Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:27:51
        Re: if NASA had not existed..., Reality, Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:30:39
        oh, and one more thing..., James, Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:51:29
        Re: if NASA had not existed..., James, Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:25:24
        Re: if NASA had not existed..., Reality, Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:48:45
        Re: if NASA had not existed..., James, Sun, 10 Jul 2011 03:47:19
        Re: if NASA had not existed..., Reality, Sun, 10 Jul 2011 06:10:56
        Re: if NASA had not existed..., James, Sun, 10 Jul 2011 06:39:19
        Re: if NASA had not existed..., Reality, Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:17:23
        Re: if NASA had not existed..., James, Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:36:29
        I actually agree . . ., Reality, Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:29:36
        Re: I actually agree . . ., James, Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:33:09
        Re: I actually agree . . ., Reality, Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:07:49
        oh, and one more thing..., James, Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:35:12
        Re: I actually agree . . ., James, Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:51:08
        Re: I actually agree . . ., Reality, Tue, 12 Jul 2011 05:47:28
        Re: I actually agree . . ., James, Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:27:26
        Re: I actually agree . . ., Reality, Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:44:49
        Re: I actually agree . . ., James, Tue, 12 Jul 2011 08:48:16
        Re: I actually agree . . ., Reality, Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:31:30
        the only thing dumber that the moon trips..., nwas, Sat, 9 Jul 2011 16:59:06
        Whoops... that should have been, nwas, Sat, 9 Jul 2011 17:00:37
  - Re: I'll cheer..., TML, Fri, 8 Jul 2011 14:20:12
  - I think I can handle 0.5% of the federal budget, rob 96 aero, Fri, 8 Jul 2011 11:27:00
    - It's not a lot of money in the big picture. But..., Noel , Sat, 9 Jul 2011 05:20:49
    - Waste is Waste; It all needs to be cut, nwas, Fri, 8 Jul 2011 19:13:25
  - Re: I'll cheer..., NCCaniac , Fri, 8 Jul 2011 09:26:41

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