ARPA

On R. Hauben's article* "ARPA's 50th Anniversary and the Internet, A Model for Basic Research"

(*Hauben's article was written for Futurezone and appears in German at its website. Futurezone is the Technology web site for Orf, Austria's national public broadcast media. The url is http://futurezone.orf.at/hardcore/stories/253842/ Below is Trevor Batten's critical analysis of the article's celebratory message.)

This article really does need close scrutiny -because (in my view) it sketches the rise of a pernicious Military-Industrial complex (as warned against by President Eisenhower) -but which has now become even more dangerous by linking up with educational and entertainment systems (the edutainment business) to become the Military-Industrial-Edutainment complex.....