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==George Friedman on DARPA==

==George Friedman on DARPA==

George Friedman, chairman of Stratfor, speaking to students noted about DARPA:

[[George Friedman]], chairman of [[Stratfor]], speaking to students noted about DARPA:

{{Cquote|the [[iPhone]]...carries such superb tools on it, as [[YouTube]] and Pinder, and all the essentials...you know that this represents the future and makes you completely different...The foundation of this phone is a microchip.

{{Cquote|the [[iPhone]]...carries such superb tools on it, as [[YouTube]] and Pinder, and all the essentials...you know that this represents the future and makes you completely different...The foundation of this phone is a microchip.

Now all this is designed to get to the place where all humanity lives, which is the [[internet]]. The internet was developed by Defense Advanced Research Project agency to move classified data from one secret lab to the other. So, something in Oak Ridge Tennessee labs there, would move to [[Los Alamos]], and that would be moved to Brookhaven National Laboratories. What were they doing in these laboratories? Doing research on [[nuclear war]]s, because that was the big story then. It was developed with only one thing in mind: to make research more efficient. And when you get on the internet, all the protocols you get, and all the cool stuff to get you around, were developed by American scientists who were deeply involved in the Cold War....

Now all this is designed to get to the place where all humanity lives, which is the [[internet]]. The internet was developed by Defense Advanced Research Project agency to move classified data from one secret lab to the other. So, something in Oak Ridge Tennessee labs there, would move to [[Los Alamos]], and that would be moved to Brookhaven National Laboratories. What were they doing in these laboratories? Doing research on [[nuclear war]]s, because that was the big story then. It was developed with only one thing in mind: to make research more efficient. And when you get on the internet, all the protocols you get, and all the cool stuff to get you around, were developed by American scientists who were deeply involved in the Cold War....

The [[cell phone]] was first deployed in 1985 by the [[United States Army]], and was used the first time in [[Operation Desert War|Operation Desert Storm]]. And it was entirely invented to facilitate military communication. Bottom line is, there is nothing in this phone...that was not created for war....

The [[cell phone]] was first deployed in 1985 by the [[United States Army]], and was used the first time in [[Operation Desert Storm|Operation Desert War]]. And it was entirely invented to facilitate military communication. Bottom line is, there is nothing in this phone...that was not created for war....

Now the Americans are peculiar. In the [[United States government]], they're not allowed to own [[patent]]s. Basic rule is, if the US government invented it, and it's not secret, it's yours for the taking. It's an odd rule, but it works for us. It means that everything we do in preparing for wars, design of aircraft, everything else, ultimately comes down to being available.

Now the Americans are peculiar. In the [[United States government]], they're not allowed to own [[patent]]s. Basic rule is, if the US government invented it, and it's not secret, it's yours for the taking. It's an odd rule, but it works for us. It means that everything we do in preparing for wars, design of aircraft, everything else, ultimately comes down to being available.

So [[Steve Jobs]], so cool, invented nothing. He took other people's inventions of the government, put them together, and the only thing he invented was marketing. And that was pretty cool. [[Bill Gates]] invented nothing. MS-DOS was a program he bought from someone that had originally been developed for the Air Force. [[Mark Zuckerberg|Zuckerberg]] invented even less. Your whole generation lives in a fantasy of creativity. The basic tools that guide your life, that permeate you, were developed by warriors, or scientists of warriors. It got to you by a bunch of really smart marketing guys, put them together, and convinced you they were geniuses. The real genius made $50,000 a year and retired poor. The marketing guys, they made the money.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwnPgscg0vU&t=502s Is There a Global War Coming?], George Friedman at Brain Bar, [[Youtube]], July 7, 2017.</ref>}}

So [[Steve Jobs]], so cool, invented nothing. He took other people's inventions of the government, put them together, and the only thing he invented was marketing. And that was pretty cool. [[Bill Gates]] invented nothing. MS-DOS was a program he bought from someone that had originally been developed for the Air Force. [[Mark Zuckerberg|Zuckerberg]] invented even less. Your whole generation lives in a fantasy of creativity. The basic tools that guide your life, that permeate you, were developed by warriors, or scientists of warriors. It got to you by a bunch of really smart marketing guys, put them together, and convinced you they were geniuses. The real genius made $50,000 a year and retired poor. The marketing guys, they made the money.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwnPgscg0vU&t=502s Is There a Global War Coming?], George Friedman at Brain Bar, [[Youtube]], July 7, 2017.</ref>}}

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