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If Einstein is to be believed, the main technologies to come out of WW3 will be sticks and stones.

I, for one, believe him.

carbon-fiber sticks and smart stones?

Well, we already saw the use of JDAM Cement in Libya.

I don't think he took into account that we could become an interplanetary species. WW3 could lead to death star style weaponry.

WW3 would have to last long enough for there to be any developments.

I'd certainly not bet any money on that happening.

Scrap metal recycling would have a boom.

If would be far more humane to hike taxes or cut financial aid funding and Medicare/Medicaid in order to pour massive amounts of money in staging giant televised robot prize fights over some atoll in the Pacific.

Encryption, for one. Distributed computing, for another.