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silicon valley is a DIRECT result of the secondary effect of radar systems.

https://web.stanford.edu/group/ree/archives/archive08/usa/pr...

shrug. It's always hard to guess?

Military research has produced a lot of secondary inventions, sure. But look at its funding as well. There's a reason why so many companies work in that sector: the amount of money in there is just huge. So of course that sector will produce more byproducts in absolute terms.

Okay? He's not saying secondary effects don't exist. He's saying you don't get more secondary effects from projects whose primary purpose is highly speculative.

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