Tommy Tainant
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The internet has made knowledge available on a scale never seen before and yet we live in an age of idiocy.Jesus fucking Christ, man, how can you spew such drivel? The government and government supported educational institutions created the web.Why cant renewables make the same advances that have been made in other technologies ?
They absolutely can. They aren't there yet, but there are technologies under development that show promise.
However, the great strides in computer and telecommunications technology in the last 40 years didn't come through government subsidies and a forced abandonment of existing technologies. Those advances were the result of innovative companies allowing the market to decide which technologies succeeded and which failed.
At any point in the past 40 years, if the government had decided that one technology was preferable over another, and forced adaptation, we would have been stuck with ISDN, or analog cell phones, or packet switched networks instead of the much more advanced technologies we have today.
You compare technological development to evolution and it's an apt analogy. Evolution is wildly unpredictable. It is brutal and requires the death of anything which isn't suited to the environment. Any attempt to subvert the will of evolution will end up in a vastly inferior result.
Invest in the future, but stop trying to destroy the past before it's ready to be destroyed. When the answer comes along, the old ways will be discarded without any questions and it won't require government subsidies or a government mandate.
Who invented the internet?
The first workable prototype of the Internet came in the late 1960s with the creation of ARPANET, or the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. Originally funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, ARPANET used packet switching to allow multiple computers to communicate on a single network. The technology continued to grow in the 1970s after scientists Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf developed Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol, or TCP/IP, a communications model that set standards for how data could be transmitted between multiple networks. ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983, and from there researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet. The online world then took on a more recognizable form in 1990, when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. While it’s often confused with the Internet itself, the web is actually just the most common means of accessing data online in the form of websites and hyperlinks. The web helped popularize the Internet among the public, and served as a crucial step in developing the vast trove of information that most of us now access on a daily basis.
Your stupid ideology would have prevent the trans-continental railroad from being built. It would have prevented the Homestead act that settled the Great Plains and the West. The government has not dictated how we get energy from the wind and sun, just that we do it. Nor have has the government dictated who builds and sells the mill and panels here. Or that you cannot heat your water with black plastic panels. The government, and rightly so, simply is encouraging getting power without polluting the water or air. The coal plants are going out of business because the could not compete with natural gas, and now cannot compete with solar and wind. The market is now deciding that we will use the renewables in the future.