Cate3.SV@Xerox.ARPA (08/30/85)
From: Cate3.SV@Xerox.ARPA ucdavis!ccrdave@topaz.arpa writes: > ......Wars are probably the greatest motivation for > technology in mankind's history. Look at how much money was spent > for R & D during W W II. Look at the results of the short period > between 1935 and 1945. The A bomb, the suborbital rocket, the > computer, and radar, all developed during that brief period War does not promote technological development. The R&D during WW II was mostly D, development, of current ideas and knowledge into means of destruction. It was not new break thoughs, but adaptation of what was known at the time. The atom bomb was from work done by scientists in the 1920. Real technological progress comes from both development, and research. Just pure research does not benifit a society. Just pure development can not be substained for long. Both are needed. War helps neither. Or more correctly the only benifit of war is the protection of the society progressing. Henry III