Smart Bombs Quotes

He anticipated smart bombs and missiles, drones, and cyber warfare. However, 25 years earlier, he observed the technology of defense and thought attacks might never again be feasible. See {626740}. Tesla was one of the great American immigrant scientists. He found in America the kind of intellectual and operational freedom that did not exist in the rigid, monarch-controlled, Austro-Hungarian Empire. He developed patents and techniques that formed the technological bases of radio, telephone long distance, TV, cell phones, Wi Fi, just to name a few. Most important he was Thomas Edison’s great nemesis. Edison invented DC electric generators that could power factories or entire streets in a neighborhood. Tesler invented and developed AC electrical technology which could power entire cities and he could move electricity over long distances which Edison could not. Tesler was one of the first scientists to conceive of and try to implement “Big Science” where there were huge capital investments to develop machines and systems to do what had never been done before—philosophically like the CERN Hadron Collider. Tesler even convinced a large corporation to finance the construction of a massive building and tower so he could experiment with the wireless transmission of electricity. However, as the industrial democracies have learned, Big Science can only be funded by governments and it often takes sever working in consort to afford the huge investment that is required. In Tesler’s era, the federal and state governments did not fund scientific research so his work was not only technically ahead of his time but also conceptually. He anticipated most of the problems and need for a national power grid that was challenging America even at the beginning of the 21st century.

over civilian casualties of American attacks The military over-promoted our smart weapons degree of capability to where most people thought that the weapons and the intelligence was much more accurate and controllable than it was. When innocent Afghan civilians were killed by American use of smart weapons, the Afghan’s believed that the only two explanations were that the Americans wanted to kill the civilians or that they didn’t care enough to carfully use their smart weapons properly.