Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!nanotech From: moseley@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Austin Moseley) Newsgroups: sci.nanotech Subject: Re: sci.nanotech posting Message-ID: Date: 12 Apr 91 21:17:50 GMT Sender: nanotech@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Applied Research Labs, University of Texas at Austin Lines: 19 Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu The DOD's crtitical technologies' program is very interesting; it's as if they got a bunch of sci fi heavies together and asked them what to invest in. From what I have read in Red Star and Pravda, its giving the Russians fits like no other. They call it something almost untranslateable: something like Strategic Technological Superiority, except the words carry connotations of a very deliberate attempt to achieve overwhelming superiority in all area by developing theories and ideas in all fields which no one has, building and proving the technologies, then fielding a force based upon these ideas. When this force is fielded, that's when your enemy finds out about it. Your enemy cannot counteract it, because he does not know about it, has not the technology to match it, and cannot understand it. Nanotechnology is of the same cloth.