RE: [xml-dev] [OT] What are the key technical problems of our era?

["Rushforth, Peter" <Peter.Rushforth@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca>]

Just like the FBI of Arlo Guthrie's day. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Len Bullard [mailto:Len.Bullard@ses-i.com] 
> Sent: July 9, 2012 09:02
> To: Costello, Roger L.; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] [OT] What are the key technical 
> problems of our era?
> 
> If we tell you then the Chinese will know.
> 
> len
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Costello, Roger L. [mailto:costello@mitre.org]
> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2012 4:27 PM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: [xml-dev] [OT] What are the key technical problems 
> of our era?
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> In the 15th and 16th century a key problem was that there 
> were no accurate clocks. Accurate clocks were needed by ships 
> at sea to determine their position. Smart individuals, such 
> as the Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist 
> Christian Huygens, worked and solved this problem with the 
> creation of the pendulum clock along with its mathematical 
> underpinnings.
> 
> What are the key technical problems of our time? 
> 
> What waters can we not sail today because we do not have the 
> technology and the math and science underpinnings to enable it?
> 
> /Roger
> 
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