Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppenheimer?

Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by nehal3m on Friday July 21, 2023 @06:00AM (#36812006)

You're right, of course the market did have something to do with the internet exploding into what we know and love/hate today. It's also true that ARPA/DARPA (depending on when you'd have asked) was responsible for its invention. That is a US government institution, however this thread places the origin of the internet in the context of American competition, so in my opinion it does make sense to deny that the internet came from that.

I do disagree that a government couldn't or wouldn't do that; the internet is infrastructure and governments do that kind of thing all the time.

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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by robertlagrant on Friday July 21, 2023 @08:57AM (#36813218)

> in the context of American competition

In the context of American competitiveness, and there's nothing more competitive than a defense department (-:

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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by nehal3m on Saturday July 22, 2023 @05:44AM (#36824850)

The US defense apparatus is literally the most bloated, bureaucratic and inefficient institution on the planet if you ask me.

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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by msla on Sunday July 23, 2023 @04:45PM (#36839641)

Good thing nobody asks you, then, because you have no idea what you're talking about.

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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by robertlagrant on Monday July 24, 2023 @06:57AM (#36845833)

R&D is inefficient. Cruise ships are more inefficient, bloated and bureaucratic than speedboats, but speedboats can't cross oceans.

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