without ww2, how was it ?

The people say that ww2 was a very bad thing to happen. But if ww2 don't occur, this world had been so advanced like our days ?
or the world were with 20 years back.

My personal opinion is that the war accelerated the research in many area (electronics,medicine,aviatics,etc).

 

Certainly if you put the cold facts on the table war does speed up development in several areas, but even then I cannot say I´d wish for war in any situation as it brings suffering and death in large amounts.



It might take more time but we´d develope many of the same things that were invented faster due to war.

[ 10. January 2004, 06:44 AM: Message edited by: Kai-Petri ]

 

yes
it is truth what you said
The war itself was a social impact over the evolution of countries.
But the topic was, if the world developed those things not the speed of development.

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But from history we got to learn, do not repeat same mistake again.

 

Do you mean ALL subsequent wars afterwards,too?Say this was a "perfect"world and the whole world was at peace,would we be same as 20yrs. ago? I think not.Just an example;the computer you're using to write this,was it invented because of no wars.Unless the Education process stopped,people get smarter etc.and make[invent]things for the benefit of man and not for evil.But we're not a perfect world and that was 60yrs. ago.Heck,we even have "indoor plumbing" now! framert.

 

Wrong example! I see you never heard about von Neumann. He put the basics and theories of computers during the ww2. He also took part at the devolop of atomic bomb for allies.

von neumann page

"Von Neumann spent a considerable part of the last few years of his life working in [automata theory]. It represented for him a synthesis of his early interest in logic and proof theory and his later work, during World War II and after, on large scale electronic computers. Involving a mixture of pure and applied mathematics as well as other sciences, automata theory was an ideal field for von Neumann's wide-ranging intellect. He brought to it many new insights and opened up at least two new directions of research. "

 

Alas, John von Neumann is not the best example for computers. His principal contribution in that field was the 'stored program concept' around 1945.

Credit for development of the first computer goes generally to Conrad Zuse of Germany, c. 1930, and to John Atanasoff of the U.S., c. 1937.

Postscript: the stored program concept was first realized by Maurice Wilkes at Cambridge with EDSAC in 1949; see http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~edsac/