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How much do wars effect technological advancement? How would the world look like today if a major conflict, such as WWII, didn't happen?

>> No.10077565

>>10077521
Europe would still be white

>> No.10077569

They actually accelerate technological advancement. If it weren't for ww2 we may not be as far along in computing as we are now. Not to mention the advancements in nuclear power...

>> No.10077574

>>10077521
LITERALLY ALL WARS after the industrial revolution are fake. Their only purpose is to give incentive to technological advancement. Within next 20 years we will have even faux alien attack to give more motivation for humans

>> No.10077600

>>10077569
I've never really backed this argument, sure some great things are necessarily invented during wars, but what about all the little progress that wasn't made by scientists who were busy fighting or working on a very niche bit of wartech

>> No.10077618

>>10077600
>wasn't made by scientists who were busy fighting or working on a very niche bit of wartech
Actual scientists, or people working in highly advanced and important fields were not drafted to fight. You would also be surprised at the amount of civilian knowledge that came out of WWII.

>> No.10078290

>>10077521
Wars are fantastic for creating useful things from known information, but they stop any new discoveries dead
The only things that get funding are things that help the war effort, things that do not get shafted
So material science and computer tech out the ass, particle science and astrophysics gets trashed

>> No.10078300

The war = tech meme comes from everybody grabbing nazi scientists after WWII.

Things like steam power, electricity, and gunpower were all casually discovered through making toys and entertainment for kids. Probably the wheel too, honestly.

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>>10077521
computers are the byproduct of nuclear weapons development and video games.

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>>10077521
Wars got an strong negative impact and slow down scientific and technological advancement. Many scientists get killed in a war, universities are closed, all ressources are used for war efforts, nothing is left for science and developing technology.
Without WWII we would have been 20 years ago where we are now.

>> No.10078884

you do what you gotta do to survive