Weapons Grade: Revealing the Links Between Modern Warfare and Our High
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And since 1945 the relationship between military needs and modern business has grown ever closer, especially in the United States. David Hambling traces the history of this relationship in the modern era and shows how precision eye surgery emerged out of the military quest for a 'death ray', how transistors and silicon chips first helped build better bombs, and exactly why the 747 has such a distinctive shape. As well as telling the story of technology transfer in the past Hambling explores the cutting edge of modern military research. Throughout he seeks to identify the technologies that will transform business in the decades to come. If history does repeat itself - and it tends to - Market Forces will be much more than a book about the shape of current preoccupations: Hambling's readers will actually learn something about the real future of business.
Author: David Hambling
Format: Hardback, 288 pages, 153mm x 234mm
Published: 2005, Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom
Genre: Industrial Studies: General
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And since 1945 the relationship between military needs and modern business has grown ever closer, especially in the United States. David Hambling traces the history of this relationship in the modern era and shows how precision eye surgery emerged out of the military quest for a 'death ray', how transistors and silicon chips first helped build better bombs, and exactly why the 747 has such a distinctive shape. As well as telling the story of technology transfer in the past Hambling explores the cutting edge of modern military research. Throughout he seeks to identify the technologies that will transform business in the decades to come. If history does repeat itself - and it tends to - Market Forces will be much more than a book about the shape of current preoccupations: Hambling's readers will actually learn something about the real future of business.
Weapons Grade: Revealing the Links Between Modern Warfare and Our High