Avant-garde technology offers a new way of thinking. It excites our imaginations. It is not necessarily high-tech, but that is the starting point for The_Wireless. A military term for "advance guard", avant-garde used to apply to the arts when they held the possibilities of social change and intellectual challenge -- possibilities that the arts no longer possess yet science and technology do.
"Say you'd been around in 1980 trying to predict the PC revolution. You would have been interviewing Ken Olsen at Digital. You would have been talking to people at H-P and TI. You never would have come and seen me." -- Bill Gates (interview in Wired)
Biotechnology:
Networks:
Minority Reports describe our research:
Research Management: DuPont follow-up
- changes similar to those which Drucker had suggested several years earlier
- have those changes worked? (worthwhile for other firms to implement?)
Sullivan's Travels
The_Wireless will not cover "technology transfer", which distracts government and academia from making their main contribution to science: basic (long-term) research to educate scientists.
Last modified: 12/29/98
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