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By: Military Applications and Entrepreneurial Prototype Innovations

Military Applications and Entrepreneurial Prototype Innovations — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:29:49 +0000

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By: Libertarian Girl

Libertarian Girl — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:44:55 +0000

The reason that venture capitalists wouldn’t do these things now is because they know the government will do it for them, they can probably get cushy government contracts to produce it, and they have high taxes and regulation. If the government didn’t fund it, someone would, I guarantee you. Do you really think that no one would have come up with microwave technology or surgical robots sans the government?

The Europeans’ GPS system is much more accurate than others, and that’s the EU, one of the most notoriously wasteful and inefficient bodies in the world. You really think a private company allowed to develop that technology couldn’t have made a better system?

The government pays contractors $900 million in bonuses for a job they completed $10 billion over budget and two years late. It’s the most inefficient mass of inefficiency that ever existed. If the government wasn’t involved in this madness, that money would be with the consumer and entrepreneur from lower taxes. The defense’s budget is exactly equal to corporate taxes in the US, currently. Cut corporate taxes by half that, and those venture capitalists will have a lot more money to invest in– and needless to say, they won’t be two years late and $10 billion over budget.

Who cares if a medical start-up dies? They must not have been doing something right. In a free market, the best companies go on and the worst die out, and new ones spring up to take their place.

However, when the military goes 500% over budget, it’s robbing every person in America who works hard and pays taxes. It has no accountability for that, either. That is a travesty.

Interestingly, the best spinoffs from the military– internet and GPS– are actually the ones most related to the military’s actual aims of defense. It could still fund defense-related things, but the mechanical elephants need to be left to private companies.

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By: Lifeboat Foundation Blog » 2007 DARPA Military Technology Plan: Future Medical Promise or Danger?

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:50:20 +0000

[...] DARPA (the defense advanced research projects agency) is the R&D arm of he US military for far-reaching future technology. What most people do not realize is how much revolutionary medical technology comes out of this agency’s military R&D programs. For those in need of background, you can read about the Army & DARPA’s future soldier Landwarrior program and its medtech offshoots as well as why DARPA does medical research and development that industry won’t. Fear of these future military technologies runs high with a push towards neural activation as a weapon, direct brain-computer interfaces, and drones. However, the new program has enormous potential for revolutionary medical progess as well. [...]

By: Is Technology Good, Evil, or Neutral? » docinthemachine

Is Technology Good, Evil, or Neutral? » docinthemachine — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:48:39 +0000

[...] I believe in tehnological neutrality. While it seems that in some scenarios (such as weapons) technology is clearly morally charged, it is just that application of the technology that sets off our reaction. There is no better example than the work of DARPA which I have written about. While many lament the development of expensive military technology I see the benmeficial medical applications inherent in these projects. While one person might see evil and death I can see good and life in the exact same technologies. Read about the medical uses of military technology here, here, and here. [...]

By: Steven F. Palter, MD

Steven F. Palter, MD — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:03:21 +0000

David–

Thanks for your keen insight. Your comments about how so many people cannot see the practical impact of future reaching programs like DARPA’s echos my thought and so many of the comments on my piece here at at slashdot. I know your company’s work well and am a fan myself. Particuoar notables are the inner life of the cell and the DARPA trauma pod (you are probably unaware of this but I personally have seen this animation piece in talks at international meetings from 4 physicians – all insinuating that they made it!). Credit must go to xvivo , DARPA , and my friend Rick Satava, MD who WAS instrumental in making it and sharing the video with so many in surgery and gynecology. for those interested check it out here: DARPA trauma pod and read about more 2007 DARPA programs and medicine here:
http://docinthemachine.com/2007/02/10/darpaachievements/