# What are the ways that technologies become self-sustaining? # What are the ways that technologies become self-sustaining * Commercial viability * Does military use count as commercial viability? * Becoming cheap enough that people can just do it with their spare change <!-- #questions --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/What+are+the+ways+that+technologies+become+self-sustaining) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/What+are+the+ways+that+technologies+become+self-sustaining) <!-- {BearID:896F83EF-AB2E-45F8-8004-4EFA484D0CAC-2401-000004ABB4EFF4AF} -->