Lyddea
2011-07-03 14:42:39
Nobody thinks that government investment changes what is possible to eventually be developed. What is risible, however, is your equation of the benefit in microprocessors now, vs. microprocessors eventually (replace microprocessor with technology of choice). The speed up of development of key technological innovations is a substantive good that positively affects many people’s lives, and dismissing it as something that would have come about “eventually” totally misses the point.
