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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

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lunarchick - 01:21pm Nov 18, 2002 EST (# 5921 of 5923)

Professional Associations ratchet-up the standards Nationally and Internationally acting as a reference and standard professionals can measure both themselves and their work, against.

http://www.hmc.gov.uk/archon/atozed.htm lists http://www.w3.org/ that in turn lists developing IT language-organisation.

FEEDBACK - is important ... it enables growth along a 'true' track.

lunarchick - 01:24pm Nov 18, 2002 EST (# 5922 of 5923)

Looking critically at Nations that govern by 'terror' ....

How can people within such systems develop professionally when 'new knowledge' the essence of development is subject to suspicion --- that in turn could lead to conflict with a totalitarian-monster, who can inflict demise and/or death randomly.

lunarchick - 01:38pm Nov 18, 2002 EST (# 5923 of 5923)

Feedback - complex - a model

http://physioweb.med.uvm.edu/homeostasis/complex.htm

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