Technological Mastery Quotes
He made this quotation in a discussion about nuclear weapons, but the principle is valid for many areas from the Internet to pharmaceuticals. In the nuclear weapons case there have been a number of accidents – including fatal ones – over the years and on several occasions a nuclear weapon came close to detonating near populated areas. In one case, radiation damage from a crash of a nuclear weapons equipped bomber have made an area in Spain unusable for years into the future.
Many of the major new technology companies of America initially wanted nothing from government and didn’t want government to interfere with their efforts. They initially did no donate to political campaigns or hire lobbyists. But because of their amazing success, they transformed American and world society, threatened and damaged vested interests and became the focus of government attention. And soon the began to play the game but unlike their technologies at which there were masterful, they were not as skilled and adroit at politics. In a number of c cases they challenged the United States government both directly and indirectly by changing facts on the ground in America, and when government was most needed to work out new rules of the road for the nation with the new technologies, the U. S. Congress was gridlocked and totally dysfucntional.
