sister_sam on Nostr: I don't buy the full purported relationship between Darpa and Big Tech as being so ...

I don't buy the full purported relationship between Darpa and Big Tech as being so tight. I am old enough to have been there before the beginning of Fidonet and Usenet. A network among universities originally supposedly to help Darpa (Arpa before that projects) helped start some raw things but does not mean State was paramount or stayed in control. True they want control of it now. That is for certain. I know how much the people and especially techno-hippies originally poured into the creation of all the tech we have. I know how many since that earnestly wished the world a better place and have worked hard to make it so have come. I agree that State tries and highly succeeds to suborn it. But let us not make the State out to be even more powerful than it is.