While enjoying my weekend I realized that "The Cold War" gave many triumphs to human race. I think it is important to talk about this because if we just talk about the bad things, we would not be able to discuss the things that were invented in this époque of time.
For example, we would not have the ability to collaborate in this blog if it hadn't been for the invention of the transistor, because as we now transistors are used in the fabrication of computers and other technological devices we use in a daily basis.
If it hadn't been for the Russian entrepreneurs that wanted to conquer space we wouldn’t have the ability to make a cell phone call across seas at the speed we can. The Russians were the first ones to send an artificial satellite to space; that satellite was called The Sputnik, after this satellite was put on orbit, a few more started to circle the Earth. This has helped in many process of communication. Another step was when Neil Armstrong arrives to the Moon.
How can we forget about ARPANET??? ARPANET was a net between computers used in the military to send information between military bases. Maybe we can think that the ARPANET is not important for us, but ARPANET is the pre-stage of what we call nowadays "the internet."
So next time you login in Facebook remember that The Cold War was the catalyst for the internet and many other things.
Dasguta Partha, War and Progress. Retrieved August 21st, 2009, from Arizona State Universtiy Web Site: http://cactus.eas.asu.edu/Partha/Columns/09-24-war.htm
2 comments:
I really enjoyed reading this post and I think that to a certain extent it´s true that the Cold War hastened the development of military technology, among other things. I think that this is something that we should discuss more, to become even more aware than what we already are of how the contemporary world links back to the Cold War period.
Good comment Jorge, thank you!!
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