> Defense Labs and National Labs: the political forces are too strong for blue-sky research to happen there.
Definately take the politics out - I once worked in defence research lab, specialising in weapons technology. My pet area is killing groups of people as quickly as possible (outdoor specialist). My team came up with some breakthrough ideas, but the g-men said it was too abstract, too blue sky, too arty-farty.
It pretty much came down to "it can kill lots of people, but unless it can start production in my state next quarter and be killing brown people within the year, it's a no-go.", my favourite excuse (shot down because the office favourite's conventional design had a cool looking model): "Your laser is great, the people are out of the way, but now the oil fields on fire.".
Get politics out of war!
I laughed, I cried, and I closed the webpage.
Posted by duver001 at July 28, 2006 11:22 AM | TrackBack