The First Picture of Earth
This is the first picture of Earth taken from an altitude higher than that of an hot air balloon's. It was captured in 1946 by a film camera strapped on one of Hitler's rockets captured by the USA after WWII. The camera broke but the film survived.
This is a similar effect we saw with the USA nuking Hiroshima. It made Japan skip rebuilding the old destroyed infrastructure and instead build brand new ones. It was because of getting nuked that they could then install the world's most advanced equipment available while most of the rest of the world was still using older tech. It took Japan 23 years to go from rank 17 to rank 2 in being the second most powerful economy in the world.
These weird coincidences of war benefiting human advancements in most unpredictable ways is part of how evolution always operates. Humans have always thought of themselves as having control over what has been transpiring across history. Buckminster Fuller called them evolution 1 and evolution 2. Humans, in their ignorance, always are engaged in their myopic ways, would be doing their own things - evolution 2. Yet, it would always play into the hands of what evolution needs man to learn and do - evolution 1. Looks like the only choice left for us is if we're going to tag along with where evolution is trying to take us, or try to do our own things (and still be taken the same way, but unwillingly, disastrously even).