From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sun Apr 20 2003 - 04:49:27 MDT
Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
> ### Yes, this is a very cool idea - technology progressing so fast that
> conflict is reduced to demonstrations of one's technological prowess, after
> which everybody else gives up.
So, technology makes right? The "conflict" does not have any
more or less right parties, is or is not justified but is just a
fact of nature effectively?
If overwhelming military technology determined outcomes the US
would still be a colonial territory. Conflicts are not resolved
based on techology alone.
Since only the good guys can keep up the
> innovation cycle humming (or so we hope), the bad guys have no choice but to
> become technologically proficient (which necessitates becoming nice to their
> engineers, technicians, their families, the merchants selling them stuff,
> the families of the merchants, the restaurant owners where the merchants
> meet...., the scientists' dogs....everybody), or else shut up and cower
> before the latest laser.
This does not all follow. Or did the Soviets not put something
in orbit first and field and extraordinary army of excellent
scientiests and engineers in the cold war? Did they or did they
not acheive sufficient military technology to destroy the world
just as we did?
- samantha
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