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by TJ Coles CounterPunch edited by O Society May 22, 2019


In recent years, the traditional banking, energy and industrial Fortune 500companies have been losing ground to tech giants like Apple and Facebook. But the technology on which they rely emerged from the taxpayer-fundedresearch and development of bygone decades. The internet started as ARPANET, an invention of Honeywell-Raytheon working under a Department of Defense (DoD) contract. The same satellites that enable modern internet communications also enable US jets to bomb their enemies, as does the GPSthat enables online retailers to deliver products with pinpoint accuracy. Apple’s touchscreen technology originated as…

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One thought on “Vicious Cycle: The Pentagon Creates Tech Giants and Then Buys their Services

  1. I previously posted about the example of Amazon as so connected to government as likely to be an extension of it. Jeff Bezos was close to his grandfather who was a major figure on the government side of the military-industrial complex. It is highly unlikely that Bezos accidentally created a corporate system that has been so integral to that same corporatocratic nexus of wealth and power.

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