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From: dsi@unccvax.UUCP (Dataspan Inc)
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Subject: Oh good grief, the technostructure
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Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 11:06:15 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 11 11:06:15 1985
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   (A continuation of a certain DC area co. firing top guru...)

   Not that anyone could possibly know everything about anything, but I just
saw some sniveling public official on C-SPAN this morning whining and complaining
about the "Star Wars" defence programme.  Lucky me, on the way to work, some
House of Lords chap was bitchin' about the same thing.

   Now, I don't want to pass judgement yea or nay on using whatever means to
disable nuclear weapons in flight, but I AM SICK AND TIRED of a bunch of people
with narrowly defined skills of relatively no technical sophistication making
public policy.  We've got guys fighting passionately on both sides of the
House almost every day over this issue (and many others), and I'll bet you that
there might be 3 people in there who could bias a transistor for class A 
operation.

   Then there is this article in Buisness Week quoting an official from Big
Blue stating something like "we would have to go to fibre optics to overcome
the component interconnection time problem" or something like that, in 
reference to ballistic transistors. And now, the 100 gHz O.O.K. diodes and 
phototransistors, please....(The remark actually looks much more stupid in
print.)

    Since it is the nonconformists, wild ducks, reformed ex-drug crazed hippies,
etc. that get things done around here, it is high time they had some input 
into the aforementioned problem. Although informing the unwashed masses is
a) a threat to job security and b) directly contrary to why one becomes a
wild duck in the first place; eventually, mutual survival rather than corporate
survival will hinge on information provided to those guys in "Special Orders"
saying that something "won't work." What an way to open duck season.......

    This doesn't mean that everyone should go around deriving the expression
describing carrier lifetime in a photoconductor on demand. It's just that the
national anxiety index would go down dramatically if there was a modicum of
scientific education. At least enough education, so that, a non-techie could
recognise a Good Thing when they have it......


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I am. Therefore, I'll think.     --Ayn Rand

dya