From the December 2002-January
2003 issue of The Industrial Physicist:
Will
innovation flourish in the future?
- Jerome I. Friedman
In modern industrial
nations, quantum mechanics contributed
to the Internet, computers, lasers,
atomic clocks, the Global Positioning
System, and superconductors. But who
is going to do the basic research
that will form the basis for the next
technology revolutions?
From
the December 2002-January 2003 issue
of The Industrial Physicist. This
article is copyright American Institute
of Physics and may be downloaded for
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