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Re:We have socialised the risk of innovation but privatised ... by anaolykarpov on Monday March 09, 2015 @02:19AM (#9169470)
If it wasnt for the cold war and the space race, I really doubt that NASA would have ever been created. Should we seek for another cold war because its a medium in which some kind of innovation occur? So are regular wars? Should we demand our states to start wars because technology advances during those times?
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Re:We have socialised the risk of innovation but privatised ... by nmrm2 on Monday March 09, 2015 @10:11AM (#9170987)
Or we could demand our states care as much about advancing human knowledge during peace time as they do during war time.
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