Heat-Seeking Missiles Versus Auto-Flushing Toilets

*The great pioneer Ivan Sutherland is discussing his groundbreaking work in the military, in ARPA, and in the ARPANET, the Cold War ancestor of the Internet. His interviewer would like to know where the money, power and intellectual impetus came from to build such a thing as the ARPANET.

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ASPRAY: …. The reason I ask is that in our research so far, among government agencies NIH looks like the only competitor to ARPA in terms of having the ability or a...