Is consumerism now the driving force of innovation?

I am posting this question based from my own observation. Way back, it was the military that is driving most inventions. The strong need to outsmart or outdo the enemy leads scinetists to invent the nuclear bomb. The military needs to communicate with their units that are all around the world and so the satellite was born which we eventually benefitted through our TVs and cellphones. Working with powerful radio telescopes, they have discovered that we could cook using microwave thus the micorwave oven was invented. The military needed a machine...

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