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Originally Posted by tadd
Governments (or pseudo governments) have always done the heavy lifting with respect to development.
Private industry didn't decide to build rockets and do the basic science/engineering to get there. The US government did. As well as MEMs, the solid state transistor, and a variety of other technologies that finally got mature enough to converge and become the product of SpaceX.
Rome build the aqueducts, not crassis (he was the richest, IIRC).
The pope (church, quasi government) drove the Sistine chapel to be created.
I'm trying to think of one new science discovery that lead to a new technology that was created only on private money...
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Bell Labs created the solid state transistor.