By the time they are ready to embrace the future they were promised it will be gone. Ah well at least it might be an amusing hobby for them.

Now you are saying darpa doesn't do interesting things.

Otay.

Nope Blacksmiths were early NANO TECH engineers.

Look at their control of Pearlite and Bainite microstructures.

If you are going to go around correcting people at least get it right.

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That would be DARPA
  The D is for Defense, you really want the D.O.D running the economy ?

Anyway the internet is more a counter example than a supporting example to your point. The initial internet was meant to be a military communication system that could operate when large numbers of links were destroyed. Almost all the growth in the internet and it's usefulness comes from things that couldn't have been planned for or foreseen at its creation.

Don't think so ? look at I.P.V4 4 billion addresses were plenty (not accounting for overhead etc etc ) Hell NAT wasn't even supposed to be a thing.

We used to call this physical chemistry. I suppose that doesn't sound as sexy.

You need to brush up on your economics or control theory.
Central planning was proved not to scale far back as 1915 by Von Mises. If you want something more current, take a look at any parallel processing system. If you insist on having a central control node the Your parallelism is going to be limited by the ability of that node to process information from the other nodes.

TLDR; Central planning doesn't work because it discards the efforts of almost all the population except the central planners. Unless the inventiveness and vision of the society is overwhelmingly concentrated in the planners. Do you know many innovative bureaucrats ?

Most independent app developers lose money these days.

So really 4 billion dogs fighting over 1 bone ? I don't think that's the democracy anyone wants.

No we can be pretty sure that central planning doesn't work. People who keep insisting on it just prove insanity by repeating the same actions and expecting different results.

We can also be pretty sure that if people don't have a way to earn a living provide for themselves they will take it out on society.

It was a problem then as well.
I will say this IE 6 best virus delivery platform ever.

This needs to be modded hilarious.

Unless you are going to be developing a site that is directly related to an EE field (mathematics/signal analysis/electronic parts etc), why would you expect your knowledge to be any more use than say someone else's knowledge of law ? If you want topics that would be useful but aren't directly related, art/art history/graphic design/advertising all come to mind.

I know from experience my undergrad was EE and I have Professional Engineering license and it really doesn't overlap much except for problem solving skills and logical thought.

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This image tells all you need to know about Cable/Telco promises.

Once you have a monopoly that has no competition there is no reason to improve service or product quality and every incentive to drive it down to as low a level as you can without people rioting outside your offices.

So you think hammers are trivial ?

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