How did the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency aim to make the world a better place with their inventions?

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency aimed to make the world a better place with their inventions by developing the internet. They believed that the internet held great potential for humankind by making information and opportunity accessible to all. This was a part of their broader goal to foster advances in technology to compete with the Soviet Union.

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A government agency, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, funded and created the internet. The defense agency's main goal was to foster undefined advances in technology to compete with the Soviet Union. The agency employed a handful of scientists and engineers to develop the internet, many of whom "were fundamentally convinced that they could make the world a better place with their inventions." Eventually, this team fractured into two groups. The first was a set of "computer geeks" interested in the new technology for its own sake. The second was a group of men who identified as "counter-cultural humanists." They believed that the internet held great potential for humankind by making information and opportunity accessible to all.

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