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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a
nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a
"Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed
considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense
initiatives more successful? Can such an application of
science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable,
necessary or impossible?
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rshow55
- 10:42am May 9, 2003 EST (#
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Can we do a better job of finding
truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have
done and worked for on this thread.
We're at a point, on a large number of problems, where
there has to be some clarification of what people agree on -
what they want done - and when and how exceptions are
to be made.
When I was eighteen I was recruited into a
exceptional position - to do big jobs that needed to be
done - on the basis of arrangements that seemed reasonable in
context - and now, at 55, I'm in a position where, if I'm to
function at all, I need some exception handling .
No doubt I'm biased, and somewhat selfish, but it seems to
me that it would be in the public interest for me to be
permitted to work. As of now, and for a long time past, I've
been so restrained that I might as well be under house arrest.
Not that I matter so much, as an individual. Many people
have made it clear to me how little I matter. Fair enough.
It still seems to me that many millions of lives could be
made better if I were permitted to work. That's been blocked
on a number of occasions in the past. Perhaps the decision
could be reconsidered.
As a minimum, I'd need an agreement, in writing or
otherwise usable in bureacratic circumstances, about what the
government would let me use of my work, and what it would
restrict.
A lot of problems, the code of the brain among them, might
be soluble if that were permitted.
lchic
- 11:08am May 9, 2003 EST (#
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~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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" The progress of technology is value ridden and human
shaped "
Thomas Hughes University of Pennsylvania
lchic
- 11:27am May 9, 2003 EST (#
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~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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"" Among those who effect change, the independent inventors
stand tallest. Inventors at the core of the Second Industrial
Revolution (1870-1940) included: Edison, Bell, Wright Bros.,
Ford.
Following inventors come the ‘system builders’ a special
breed of managers who have a holistic ability to coordinate
the technical and organizational aspects of a sociotechnical
revolution. Their genius lies in the integration of
heterogeneous physical, human, and organisational components
into a productive goal-oriented system.
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ffp0111s.pdf
http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.pQwjaTkP8wl.2382040@.f28e622/13125
lchic
- 11:45am May 9, 2003 EST (#
11535 of 11541)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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