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Terrorism, Security, Technology
Terrorism, Security, Technology Wednesday
16Apr
TINKERING NETWORKS AND DIY ROCKETS
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 02:48 From: http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/
The history of the dominant technologies of 21st Century warfare won't spend much time on the complex and expensive systems developed by US defense contractors. Instead, the focus will be on the innovations that are derived from open tinkering networks of amateur inventors. The reasons for this include:
- Higher levels novelty production. Diverse and open networks of amateur hackers, tinkerers, and inventors can pursue more paths of discovery and development simultaneously than large, expensive, and linear development efforts. The importance of this will increase as Moore's Law, which measures the level of computing power available to the average user, increasingly shifts to the vertical (remember, this is an exponential curve). See open decision making for more.
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