Why consumer tech now beats military gear in innovation speed

they think, like, the military has, like, special gear, and it's got its own kind of supply chain. And often, the military supply chain is often just a subset of the consumer supply chain because you sell a billion units of this and maybe you have a 100,000 or a million units of a military thing. It's almost it's actually it's almost kind of the reverse now in that it used to be so the way the way I think about this is, like, in the past, like, before we were born,

the intelligence agencies would get the cool new stuff first, and then the military would get it, and then big corporations would get it, and eventually consumers would get it, like, thirty years afterwards. So this is like the commercial That's a conversion. Yes. Is like microwaves were invented for NASA. Right. And eventually consumers get them. Yeah. Or like GPS was invented to guide missiles Exactly. And now it's used for tagging cat photos. And the shift is like a combination of the stuff getting cheap enough that it can be for consumers instead of you needing a billion dollars to have one.