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100			_aDavid Hambling. _910417
245			_aWeapons grade : revealing the links between modern warfare and our high-tech world
260			_aLondon _bConstable and Robinson Ltd _c2005
300			_axiv,402 _bPB _c23x15 cm.
365			_b€12.99 _c€ _d€12.99
520			_aPredicting 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.
650			_a Military art and science _910418
650			_aMilitary research _910419
650			_aTechnology Transfer _910420
700			_aHAMBLING (David) _910421
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