Virtually every major technological objective of the modern era has failed: the superconducting supercollider, the “Star Wars” missile defense, the joint task force fighter, and dozens more. All these projects are classified out of reach, of everybody. A good 85% of ALL research, anywhere, on any topic is now classified. How the hell is a graduate student able to find a good research project if he doesn’t have security clearance, and nobody will say what’s already been done? I think it’s just like the NY Times bestseller said, Science is at an End because all the fundamentals are classified, or proprietary, or otherwise out of reach of those who can advance the state of the art ~ young people, with no clearance, and not enough history to get a high level security clearance. We might as well shut down all the Universities right now, at least the research laboratories because their usefulness is at an end.
Scientists can’t worship that book as a pioneering work of fiction, and keep their cushy jobs at the same time. Sorry boys and girls, the Happy Days are over.
One of President Clinton’s last major incentives was to get $1 trillion appropriated for repair of schools around the nation – mostly mechanical and structural repairs (EXCLUDING the $1 trillion in new equipment needed to comply with the dubious Freon Ban). This was needed just to get the buildings up to the 1990 Building Code. The cost is likely two times that now. So, while the scientific community was building $3 trillion of projects that never panned out; the public schools were going in the red to the tune of $3 trillion. We owe it all to the enormous influence of teacher’s special interest groups in Washington. Shame on me for saying that. But it’s true.
Then there is the case of the Israeli Defense Forces. For decades they have taken the best American technology – jets, missiles, armaments – and improved upon it, creating all together the most sophisticated arsenal in the world. The problem is that they do not share ANY of their technology back with the United States. It’s an insult for our largess to be spurned so arrogantly. We owe it to them, because of the Holocaust ~ how much longer will they play that card? The Jews complain about Christians blaming them for Christ’s demise; then wonder why Christians think lightly of the Holocaust? Neither party is being the least bit objective, and probably never will – until the whole world is Islam, and it’s too late for diversity. Of course, by that point in time Islam won’t even be recognizable, what after all the new age modernizations and revisions to the Koran like they’ve done to the Bible.
Americans invest enormous sums into our institutions of higher education. Over eighty percent of all basic research in the world is done on American university campuses. The American people fund all that, but most of the benefit goes to all the other nations in the world. We spend all our money and manpower on fundamental research; they spend all theirs on practical applications. The classic example is Japan – they do virtually no basic research; but have the most sought after cars and electronics in America. Their products are cheap – even after shipping them around the world – because they have no research and development overhead to pay for; just technological innovation. Americans were always good thinkers but lousy businessmen. We make great bombs but never drop them at a good time.
The crafts – carpentry, mechanics, and such – are not normally categorized as technology; but they are vital to the development of advanced technology nonetheless. The famous naval historian Alfred Mahan wrote that the South lost the Civil War because they did not have enough people in the trades. Increasingly, America is becoming the same way because of cheap migrant labor. The American construction industry has become dangerously addicted to this cheap labor; and the American work force has become seriously disassociated from the fundamental crafts because of it. “Made in America” is nothing more than an eroticism.
Macintosh marketed a new PC a couple of years ago that they advertised as having dual processors. The effective speed was doubled, but the incremental increase in cost was nil because older central processor chips are virtually worthless. I’m quite sure the entire computer industry would LOVE to keep increasing the costs of their PC’s while just using two, then three, then four, etc.. paralleled chips. The technology is there – the aerospace industry can parallel hundreds of chips easily – and the greed as well. Just a few months ago the company that manufactures the machines that make chips announced a huge loss – while the rest of the industry was doing quite well – what more evidence do you need? They don’t need new chip manufacturing machines if they’re still making the same old Intel chips, now do they?
Science funding is a complex business. Congress funded the Hubble telescope, for example. Then they indirectly funded the thousands of scientists and their research projects who have made an entire industry of evaluating the data from the Hubble. The complete cost of the Hubble, then, is hundreds if not thousands times what the device itself cost. The same will probably happen with the data coming from the Mars survey missions. The American people need to reconsider their absolute trust in everything scientists say or do or think or plan. Jesus was the Son of God, and look how much the system trusted Him. We have no business treating the authorities any differently – do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
A couple of years ago tens of thousands of high tech workers were given visas to come work in the U.S. Now that the technology industry is suffering are those foreign workers being sent back home? NO. The immigration laws are being amended to make their resident status permanent. How much longer before they start deporting American citizens who are chronically unemployed? It makes perfect business since. Business has the power in Washington. The American people are totally ignorant of everything Washington does ~ Clinton’s approval rating went up after he confessed to raping an underage intern in the White House.
Then there is the infamous X-plane competition last year, competed between Lockheed and Boeing. The Pentagon specified they create a vertical take off/landing aircraft like the Harrier. Yet, even though this new X-plane is slated to become the jet aircraft of choice for all the military services in all applications, the Harrier is currently used in at most 5% of combat operations. Why have such a specialized aircraft be designed? The planes are extremely complicated mechanically, meaning they’re a nightmare to maintain and cost a fortune to build. Maybe they’re planning to let the Chinese steal the plans so they can use it for their manned mission to Mars.
The government isn’t the only organization with the ability to invade our privacy. New micro miniature camcorders, cameras, wireless microphones, computer monitoring systems, GPS systems, and cell phone microwave intercept devices have given terrorists, crime syndicates, and drug runners all the tools they could ever hope for to expose undercover government operatives. The government must have court orders, paperwork, and product registration numbers. The bad guys can just do it. The odds are very much against the government now.
Every major terrorist event, no matter where it occurs in the world, rolls back the civil liberties of people everywhere – one invisible baby step at a time. Thinking individuals in democracies willingly sacrifice their freedoms for the comfort and security of old style totalitarianism. They are afraid of technology, mistrust it, and trust in their governments to allow them to live their lives out in relative security and prosperity.
Technology has driven progress and prosperity for three hundred years, since the industrial revolution. In the last century alone, the elderly have witnessed winged flight by aircraft, then jets, then space craft. The printing press gave way to typewriters, then word processors, then voice actuated computers. Bicycles gave way to motorcycles then powerful automobiles traveling on highly engineered roadways. Communication by mail took months via horseback; then weeks via roads; days via air carriers; now nanoseconds via email. Each of these steps, large or small, has been a boon to business.
No further such steps are on the horizon, or even visualized. All of the major technological incentives of recent years have failed miserably – nanotechnology, once a bright prospect that got billions in funding, is not practically a theoretical impossibility. Space exploration is no less constrained by the extreme cost of escaping the grasp of Earth’s gravitational pull. Advances on the internet, once by orders of magnitude, now happen by fractions of an inch. Faster computers are still built every day, but the need for them is diminishing. Cell phones offer instant communication with anybody in the world; you can’t improve on that.
Business leaders recognize that the rate of innovation is lessening, and that the appetite of the general public for high tech items is peaking. Profits will less and less be from technology innovations, but from opening up new markets in third world nations. Already innovations are guarded by the industry giants with such extreme levels of secrecy that a minuscule security flaw in their software announced by Microsoft sends a wave of shear panic through boardrooms the world around. Proprietary technology is what’s kept Exxon-Mobil in business for decades, they recently claimed; and exhorted companies to create their own in house research labs to take advantage of the few technological crumbs that are left.
At the same time, there exists a near paranoia in the scientific community against any new, ground breaking ideas. Competition is so extreme for funding from a shrinking funding pool, and the ramifications of an embarrassing research flaw or failure are so extreme, that science goes forward like a snail across a bed of salt. Any esteemed scientist who dares to comment on this fact – like the folks leaving Sodom and Gomorrah – will themselves be turned into a pillar of salt, on the spot. There is no secret guarded with greater fear anywhere in the world than the secret that scientific progress is grinding to a halt. The slightest whiff of a rumor that this is the case, uttered by the most tremulous of insiders under the most dubious of circumstances, would crater the funding and the future of every scientist and every institution of higher education on the planet. An important part of being an authority is having absolutely no objections from your peers on anything you say. Any such talk diminishes the awe and power of the mystique. Similarly, it is crucial for authority to dish out unpleasant news occasionally – e.g. Greenspan shocking the stock market down 150 points in an hour – to make a resounding confirmation to people. Along this vein, it was important to remove the computer trading limits to restrict movement of the averages, so that authority can have the extreme affect that is necessary. Down is better.
As interest rates creep back up, pressures increase for major banks to merge. Their power increases exponentially as a result, and the only possible way to avoid this calamity is energy conservation. So many evils have been done in the name of energy conservation, however, that too many industries are threatened by it and so nobody will have the courage to speak out – knowing full well he will be obliterated, his family impoverished, and even his community moribund; as a result. This banking merger trend started a decade ago, and was planned as the funding base for the Borg hive mind conspiracy of Jews (who already controlled significant sectors of the banking industry) and scientists, who advise policy makers on the economics underlying their decision making. There is so much easy money made in banking that it is easy to funnel some off to pay for the whole cover up. Again, the only threat to this process is energy conservation because of its power to reduce inflation, taking the pressure off the economy that makes it necessary to raise interest rates – the process which pumps billions into the bank slush funds, like a hard rain filling up a reservoir following a drought. Sadly, the Jew/Scientist clique has an ally in the Baby Boomer generation, which has not saved nearly enough for their retirement and desperately need consistently high returns for close to the next twenty years straight. These people are in upper management of every company in the nation, and assert an enormously powerful force of conformity upon the entire culture.
Presumably, the Jewish business leadership purposefully coerced the Baby Boomers to ignore their retirement; to create just this situation.
The “NASA culture” study conducted after the Challenger disaster is proof of this. They talk about 18,000 NASA employees being afraid to speak out – 85% of those employees are engineers and scientists, many of them with Ph.D.s. It speaks volumes that all these highly educated individuals are like mice before a stampeding elephant, with not an ounce of courage or integrity or resolve between them all. This is not the kind of people who will advance science into unknown realms. It is the kind of people who will buy the New York Times bestseller Science is at an End, and take comfort that there is nothing left for them to discover anyway.
More and more engineering practices are governed strictly by the codes. The perception to most people, for example, is that contractors know more than engineering consultants; or cab drivers more than city planners. There is less and less need for professionals, at every level, in every discipline. A similar thing is happening because of computer programs – which themselves often design according to the codes – making it unnecessary for students to learn the basics; or even for professionals to take responsibility for design practices at all. The common man trusts a computer program far more than any professional, and has endowed computers with an aura of authority that at one time was reserved for esteemed professionals. People have lost faith in science, and this faith has been transferred to machines. Sadly, my criticizing science and scientists only further the demise of thoughtful, intelligent people everywhere.