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Re: Declaration of Indigenous Peoples on Genome Project
Todd N Nims (nimstod@MAIL.AUBURN.EDU)
Wed, 8 Mar 1995 14:37:25 -0600
Has everyone forgotten whythe US started its Space program in the first
place? Whydo you think we sent people into space?? And if youhave no
idea why I am talking about the space program then I suggest youexplore
where a huge majority of the technological advances of the past 30 or so
years have come from. Most specifically the computer technology we know
today.
Todd N. Nims
{nimstod@mallard.duc.auburn.edu}
Auburn University, AL
On Tue, 7 Mar 1995, Peter D. Junger wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Mar 1995, Todd N Nims wrote:
>
> > If the US hadnt had the insatiable desire
> > to get one over on the Soviets (and also have the ability to destroy
> > them) neither you nor I would be using a computer today or surfing the net.
>
> Leaving aside the fact that all contrafactuals are logically true, this
> statement seems very dubious. The computer that I use is a direct
> descendent of the old NorthStar Horizon, wooden cased, Z80, 56k CP/M box
> that was my first computer (which was put together as piece-work in
> somebody's garage) and which in turn descended from the Altair hobby
> machine.
>
> My initial net-surfing was on Bitnet and occasionally on DECnet, neither
> of which was particularly influenced by or a product of the military, and
> though the Internet Protocol was first developed by academics funded by
> DARPA, the military applications were, as far as I know, purely defensive,
> since they were designed to allow communications channels to survive an
> attack (or an earthquake or a hurricane). And it seems likely that the
> IP protocol and something like the current Internet would have been
> developed without DARPA funding, although perhaps the net would not have
> caught on quite so extensively without the boost that that funding gave.
>
> --
> Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
> Internet: junger@pdj2-ra.f-remote.cwru.edu junger@samsara.law.cwru.edu
> Bitnet: junger@cwru
> NOTE: junger@pdj2-slip.dialin.cwru.edu NO LONGER EXISTS
>
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