Don't read too much into the historical fact that large-scale highly-motivated efforts often produce technological spinoffs. In World War II, we got nuclear energy, ballistic missiles, turbojets, and radar. In the Cold War, we got the Apollo program. This is still going on. But the advances are only sometimes publicized.
Don't read too much into the historical fact that large-scale highly-motivated efforts often produce technological spinoffs. In World War II, we got nuclear energy, ballistic missiles, turbojets, and radar. In the Cold War, we got the Apollo program. This is still going on. But the advances are only sometimes publicized.