Ever wonder where all the cool gadgets come from? Ever wonder who gets to try this stuff out first? normally the war machine scientists get it first, try it out and find an application by using it for destruction; an inevitable outlet for the human species and our desire to blow things up. It then moves into the secret sector for important projects like, Microwave Ovens, Nuclear Energy, aviation space travel, telecommunications, Internet (which of policy Al gore created first?), even Hummers, the greatest Suv was created to cruise soldiery around in, Helicopters, hydrofoils, you name it man it came from soldiery first.
But now we are finding things move so fast that the general habitancy will be getting the new technologies in some way or someone else within a few years from discovery and proving of concept. Many things are now being created in secret sector and the soldiery is finding great applications for them such as the palm computer technology for Navy Seal Teams, cell phone telemetry tracking. What about the secret sector protecting their rights to these advances? Patents? Who cares, by the time you get the thing filed everyone has it, four of your old employees brought it to your competitors, your key vendors sold it or partnered with someone else enterprise to make it. By this time it is already on the shelves for you and I. The enterprise with the marketing channels and fastest rollout gets the cake, but does not have time to eat it. Remember in the new age the fast eat the slow. The game never stops and habitancy and companies enter and exit the field of their selection at will. With the Internet as a distribution channel a new wiget can be to store in months and delivered in 8-12 hours by Fed Ex if the enterprise has their manufacturing at or near a regional hub. The World is changing and we maybe getting many of these new technologies a lot faster than before. Think about it.
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