Because it's part of the Military Industrial Complex, it can't do anything else. This stuff is not what Humanity needs, it's what big tech needs to stay in the driving seat. The plan is that computing becomes something that happens in Low Earth Orbit and so if you want to do anything with it you better make sure you have 20,000 satellites up there. This is fucking madness! See Tom Waits - The Fly (Poem) . Subscribe to The Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Programming Languages . Here's an example. If I try to read George Zipf's 1942 paper The Unity of Nature, Least-Action, and Natural Social Science on JSTOR then I am told "This item is not available for free online reading." The author died 76 years ago according to this centenary publication Biographical notes on G. K. Zipf by Claudia Prün and Robert Zipf. See Emil Post .