If anyone could help?

[Pigslilspaz]

Going to be writing my final this semester on how technology has advanced to what it has today because of war. (Example, Jets) Running low on ideas, and was wondering if anyone else had any thoughts on this topic.

[danny76]

Try medicine, medical technology advances at fantastic rate during wartime, military vehicle applications are now available on civilian vehicles 4x4's etc. Satnav is a military technology that has become commonplace in civvy street.

Just a few thoughts

All the best with it 

[Blooz]

Body armor (from leather to steel links and plates to nylon to kevlar and ceramic plates)

Communications (from direct speech to written orders, heliograph, telegraph, telephone, radio, digital comunications)

Explosives (from gunpowder to TNT to atomic and hydrogen bombs)

[Pigslilspaz]

Actually, let me clarify, advances towards civilian tech. Trying to convince a professor that some good does come from war.

[Shuffler]

Night vision technology used from Coast Guard to security cameras

Laser technology for home security and measuring

Sighting technology used in hunting

Further advances in GPS which most all of us use every day

Engine technology from piston to turbojet

Rocket technology used to explore space..... where even more technology was advanced

[lothmog]

As Blooz mentioned, Communications are high up on the list.  The early development of the internet was originally a US military project during the cold war.  

GPS was also initially developed under military projects during the cold war (IIRC).

[Plazus]

Canned food/processed food. Food packaging and handling. All of these advancements came through centuries of warfare. Just ideas. Good luck on your paper!

[Vudak]

Actually, let me clarify, advances towards civilian tech. Trying to convince a professor that some good does come from war.

Do you just have to (essentially) list examples of what has come from war, or do you also need to show that it would not likely have come without war?

[68Wooley]

Most of the earliest machines we'd recognize as modern digital computers were developed during WW2 for code breaking and calculating shell trajectories. Much of the computer science we still use was developed during those times (google Alan Turing / Bletchley Park).

The internet was initially developed for military use.

Without those advances, you'd have to do the essay the old way - i.e. by hitting the library and doing your own research...

[dedalos]

Do the medical thing but the opposite.  Try to show how it has not advanced as match as it should have.  Meaning that although doctors can help with injuries, infection, removing things from your body etc, medicine has not cured anything.  No major diseases have been cured yet.  May be worth a try arguing that point and why the medical field has not advanced further.

[Shuffler]

Do the medical thing but the opposite.  Try to show how it has not advanced as match as it should have.  Meaning that although doctors can help with injuries, infection, removing things from your body etc, medicine has not cured anything.  No major diseases have been cured yet.  May be worth a try arguing that point and why the medical field has not advanced further.

This is getting off the OP's directive.  Don't you think?

[dedalos]

This is getting off the OP's directive.  Don't you think?

Its was a suggestion.  The medical field has benefited from war and is definitely using technology.  I am not forcing him to use it.  Thank you for your concern 

[Shuffler]

Its was a suggestion.  The medical field has benefited from war and is definitely using technology.  I am not forcing him to use it.  Thank you for your concern 

You you you...... suggester you.   

[dedalos]

You you you...... suggester you.   

 

[Pigslilspaz]

thanks guys, any more help would be much appreciated. A lot of this i didnt even realize, only thought of jets, shatterproof glass, and the interwebz