https://grainworks.tech/tags/technology/Recent content in Technology on grainworksHugoen-USWed, 10 Jun 2026 16:00:00 -0400https://grainworks.tech/projects/post-wwii-tech-boom/Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:00:00 -0400https://grainworks.tech/projects/post-wwii-tech-boom/<p><strong>Status: Research compiled.</strong></p> <p>An analysis of the post-WWII technology boom: how massive wartime R&amp;D investment in aerospace, electronics, materials science, and computing shaped the consumer technology landscape of the late 20th century.</p> <h2 id="key-areas">Key Areas</h2> <ul> <li><strong>The military-industrial-academic pipeline:</strong> How defense spending seeded commercial innovation (transistors, integrated circuits, jet engines, GPS, the internet)</li> <li><strong>The economic multiplier:</strong> How one dollar of wartime R&amp;D produced tens of dollars of peacetime economic value</li> <li><strong>The seven patterns:</strong> Identified repeating patterns in how wartime technologies transition to civilian use</li> <li><strong>Parallels to AI:</strong> What the post-WWII boom tells us about the current AI investment cycle</li> </ul> <h2 id="source-files">Source Files</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Research doc:</strong> <code>/Volumes/Mini_1Tb/Projects/research/economic-cycles-knowledge-base.md</code></li> <li><strong>Seven patterns post:</strong> <code>/Volumes/Mini_1Tb/Projects/research/seven-patterns-post.md</code></li> <li><strong>Three patterns deep dive:</strong> <code>/Volumes/Mini_1Tb/Projects/research/three-patterns-deep-dive.md</code></li> </ul>