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Weapons Technology Sequence:
“The integration of the new 20th century science and technology during World War I resulted in entirely unprecedented magnitudes of technical advantage gains accomplished in all the fundamental capabilities of the world’s industrial networks. As a consequence of this major mobilization of industry, brought about through realizations of the long-suppressed scientific backlog, the industrial advantage subsequently accruing in the domestic economy as by-products of the munitions industry, had so increased that by 1919 six percent of humanity were enjoying the prevalently ‘high’ standard and ever-advancing physical advantages of the industrial network. By 1940 the percentage of the ever-increasing world population that had now come to enjoy high standard industrial advantage increased to 20 percent. As a consequence of the again extraordinary advantages of technology during World War II, and in the post-World-War II cold wars, we have now increased the numbers of those humans who are participating in the industrial network to 44 percent of the world’s total population. The continually accelerating rates of increase in the number being served with ever-higher standards of industrialization has occurred despite the ever-more rapid increase in world population,”
