01926nam a22002417a 4500 20211115160030.0 211115b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 1845290887 AL eng 23 355.07 HAMW David Hambling. 10417 Weapons grade : revealing the links between modern warfare and our high-tech world London Constable and Robinson Ltd 2005 xiv,402 PB 23x15 cm. €12.99 € €12.99 Predicting how the business world might evolve is itself a multi-million-dollar business. Plenty of gurus, academics and snake-oil salesmen will tell you all about the future for a price. What the experts overlook is that the future is already here. Chances are the products and services of tomorrow are available now to a very limited clientele at a top-secret research institute near you. Throughout history, war and its threat have driven innovation and the uptake of new technology from the ancient swordsmiths who pioneered the use of iron to the Pentagon bureaucrats who funded the early internet. And since 1945 the relationship between military needs and modern business has grown ever closer. 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 and society in the decades to come. If history does repeat itself, Weapons Grade will be a book about the future of business with a difference: rather than learning more about the shape of current preoccupations, Hambling's readers will discover something about the future of business. Military art and science 10418 Military research 10419 Technology Transfer 10420 HAMBLING (David) 10421 ddc GF 220599 220599 0 0 ddc 0 0 OTH AL AL 2013-03-23 1 355.07 HAMW GF03667 2023-02-24 00:00:00 2023-02-23 2021-11-15 GF