Status: Research compiled.

An analysis of the post-WWII technology boom: how massive wartime R&D investment in aerospace, electronics, materials science, and computing shaped the consumer technology landscape of the late 20th century.

Key Areas

• The military-industrial-academic pipeline: How defense spending seeded commercial innovation (transistors, integrated circuits, jet engines, GPS, the internet)
• The economic multiplier: How one dollar of wartime R&D produced tens of dollars of peacetime economic value
• The seven patterns: Identified repeating patterns in how wartime technologies transition to civilian use
• Parallels to AI: What the post-WWII boom tells us about the current AI investment cycle

Source Files

• Research doc: /Volumes/Mini_1Tb/Projects/research/economic-cycles-knowledge-base.md
• Seven patterns post: /Volumes/Mini_1Tb/Projects/research/seven-patterns-post.md
• Three patterns deep dive: /Volumes/Mini_1Tb/Projects/research/three-patterns-deep-dive.md