[zakary]

Missiles and Drones. There’s essentially no viable use case for a hypersonic manned jet

[banku_brougham]

In the world we have built, the answer to "what purpose will this new technology serve?" is usually dispiriting.

[hoorayimhelping]

This isn't the world we've built, it's the world we live in. We didn't create this world, and we aren't yet powerful enough to change the nature of reality, so to blame humanity for the necessity of defense is silly. You'll be a lot less dispirted if you accept that the world we live in isn't a human creation and that we still haven't made it out of the struggle to survive.

[TrainedMonkey]

A huge portion of modern technology was originally developed for military applications.