INNOVATION. ON WAR & INNOVATION ...
. Janet Abbate. Inventing the Internet (MIT Press, 2000) [Google]

Here's some info on this rather troubling issue:

. Sylvia Pfeifer: "Defence groups enter the green zone for a new fight", Business Day

. Richard Waters: "Satnav gadgets show way in seasonal gift sales", Financial Times. Money quote: "Navigation devices emerged as a consumer category only after 2000, when the US government relaxed the technological restrictions that had prevented public use of its GPS satellite navigation system". [TomTom] [Garmin]

. Video on the history of the Internet