Inventions that owe their success to the WWI era

[TarJak]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

I recall some years ago reading or listening to something which indicated that all technology owes itself to war... except in peace time, where all technology owes itself to the sex/porn industry.

The argument was for the development of canned goods, aviation technology, communications technology and the like in time of war.

In time of peace however, it was all about developing technologies toward photographing, filming, and viewing porn in such ways as to retain the utmost in home privacy (VHS tapes, DVDs, digital cameras, Polaroid cameras, MPEG, JPEG, GIF, etc) LOL

the arguments were very convincing

and it is true that in trying our best to kill one another various civilian fields are technologically advanced a level or two.

personally i think our efforts would be better used on some other competitive endeavor like racing to mars, or colonizing the moon as opposed to conquest of our fellow man and his resources. Think of what would happen to technology in 10 years if we were forced to adapt to having to sustain a livable environment on another planet

You touch on a good point that the space race gave us quite a few inventions as well.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/w...nasa.everyday/

[Wolferz]

If "Necessity" is the mother of invention then War is certainly the father.

[banryu79]

If you place the "space race" in the context of the cold war... well, you see the point.