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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
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lchic
- 09:20pm Jan 29, 2003 EST (#
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Cooper off a tangent, note if this is a forum then you
should have been speaking to this point from the Showalter
Post :
Cooper seems to value ideas because they are high in
status - I think, with Edison, that the most important
things are the "things common to human beings" the points of
shared space (RS) So wearing your 'virtual Engineer's'
hat ... why not comment and move the discussion along ...
lchic
- 09:36pm Jan 29, 2003 EST (#
8330 of 8349) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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TRIANGULATION
"External perspectives"- some of which are found in this
publication - have helped the UNI to understand its
inadequacies and fragilities.
When Thomas A. Edison was asked how he felt after having
spent a lot of time, effort and money performing about five
thousand experiments until he managed to produce an
electrical lightbulb that worked properly (the model we are
still using today), he answered that he was satisfied
because he had learned about five thousand ways of how not
to make electrical lightbulbs.
Without a doubt, the UNIs experienced the displeasure of
trying to introduce innovations into institutions.
They particularly learned about the power of some
strategies, the force with which the old resists the new
and, basically, one thousand "ways of how not to make
lightbulbs".
Currently, the biggest challenge they are facing is with
respect to sustainability and institutionalization. The two
are intimately related to each other. The greater the degree
of institutionalization of innovations, the greater is the
probability that the change will be sustainable, and
vice-versa.
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Seems there's a lot of effort required to establish what is
'the new', that it works, and then to incorporate it in
process when there are forces of resistance.
lchic
- 09:37pm Jan 29, 2003 EST (#
8331 of 8349) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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Thomas Edison
...Edison's teacher told him he was unable to learn.
Edison invented the light bulb.
http://www.addhelpline.org/famous_people.htm
lchic
- 09:39pm Jan 29, 2003 EST (#
8332 of 8349) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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Uncle SAM
... SAM's world-mates told him he was unable to learn.
Uncle SAM invented world peace .... well that's how the
story should end!
rshow55
- 09:43pm Jan 29, 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.
U.S. Fails to Sway U.N. Council on Iraq By THE
ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 9:15 p.m. ET http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-UN-Iraq.html
"UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Key members of the U.N. Security
Council said Wednesday that the United States has so far
failed to convince them that time has run out for a peaceful
resolution to the crisis with Iraq.
"At a crucial council meeting a day after President Bush's
State of the Union speech, 11 of the 15 members supported
giving more time to weapons inspectors to pursue Iraq's
peaceful disarmament, council diplomats told The Associated
Press.
" Calling for continued inspections were France, Russia and
China, which all have veto power, as well as Germany, Mexico,
Chile, Guinea, Cameroon, Syria, Angola and Pakistan. Only
Bulgaria and Spain backed the United States and Britain in
focusing on Iraq's failures rather than the inspections
process.
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