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Lädt ... The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World (Original 2017; 2018. Auflage)von Sharon Weinberger (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Based on the incredible history of (D)ARPA you could write a gripping story of amazing technology instead of this sprawling review of people working for the agency. Every time a project was mentioned I would get excited only to be disappointed by the focus on office gossip, dinners, backstabbing, personal successes and failures and peoples' opinions on... other people. What a waste of extensive research. ( ) In this popular history of DARPA, Weinberger sets herself the question of how an agency legendary for initiating a number of major transformative technological developments can often seem irrelevant when dealing with the big security questions. The answer would seem to be that most of the big failures occurred when DARPA entered the realm of political warfare when used as a tool in some of the more dubious wars of the United States, such as Vietnam and the ongoing "forever war" with an intractable Muslim world. Even the most elegant technological solutions (and DARPA has had its share of clunkers over the years) will not save one from an ill-chosen contest where there was always a low chance of success. As one disgruntled DARPA manager critical of this book noted at Amazon, those sort of mistakes get deservedly hung on the politicians. Still, I thought this book was worth reading and I suspect that it's about as good an account as one is going to get of the agency at the current time. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
The definitive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon agency that has quietly shaped war and technology for nearly sixty years. Founded in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik, the agency's original mission was to create "the unimagined weapons of the future." Over the decades, DARPA has been responsible for countless inventions and technologies that extend well beyond military technology. Sharon Weinberger gives us a riveting account of DARPA's successes and failures, its remarkable innovations, and its wild-eyed schemes. We see how the threat of nuclear Armageddon sparked investment in computer networking, leading to the Internet, as well as to a proposal to power a missile-destroying particle beam by draining the Great Lakes. We learn how DARPA was responsible during the Vietnam War for both Agent Orange and the development of the world's first armed drones, and how after 9/11 the agency sparked a national controversy over surveillance with its data-mining research. And we see how DARPA's success with self-driving cars was followed by disappointing contributions to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Weinberger has interviewed more than one hundred former Pentagon officials and scientists involved in DARPA's projects--many of whom have never spoken publicly about their work with the agency--and pored over countless declassified records from archives around the country, documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, and exclusive materials provided by sources. The Imagineers of War is a compelling and groundbreaking history in which science, technology, and politics collide. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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