Fergie's Tech Blog

Defense Focus: Spy Satellite Lessons Not Learned

Martin Sieff writes for UPI:

Underlying the $4 billion U.S. reconnaissance satellite fiasco lie deeper, uncomfortable truths almost never alluded to, let alone understood, by politicians of either major American political party: U.S. leaders and policymakers do not understand the science and technology available to them and have blind, childish, even magical faith in what it can do without beginning to understand how it really works.

The U.S. obsession with software engineering and virtual reality has distracted investment and career energies way from the essential, old-fashioned, "hard" engineering and technological disciplines that are still essential to get anything made, working and keep working.

posted by Fergie @ 11/15/2007 03:32:00 PM