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~rex

One of the best examples of trickle down tech is GPS which was created by the US military. No doubt this has been a huge boon for most people, it has quite literally transformed the world in countless ways. It even spawned a new hobby - Geocaching. Imagine if we still had to use mapquest...that would be terrible.

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~tetris wrote:

Good example. Plus we can use it to track the movement of wildlife over vast distances and better see our impact upon them.

Plus we now know that birds don't turn into mice every summer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfeilstorch