mort@brl-bmd@sri-unix.UUCP (08/16/83)
From: Morton A. Hirschberg <mort@brl-bmd> The human manner has led to all sorts of abuses. Indeed your latest series of messages (e.g. Spaf) has offended me. Maybe he meant humane? In any event there is no need to be vulgar to make a point. Any point. There are some of us who work for the US government who are very aware of the threats of exporting high technology and deeply concerned about the free exchange of data and information and the benefits of such exchange. It is only in recent years and maybe because of the Japanese that academia has taken a greater interest in areas which they were unwilling to look at before (current economics also makes for strange bedfellows). Industry has always had an interest (if for nothing more than to show us a better? wheel for bigger! bucks). We are in a good position to maintain the military-industrial-university complex (not sorry if this offends anyone) and get some good work done. Recent government policy may restrict high technology flow so that you might not even get on that airplane soon. [...] Mort
mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) (08/22/83)
========================== There are some of us who work for the US government who are very aware of the threats of exporting high technology and deeply concerned about the free exchange of data and information and the benefits of such exchange. ========================== It is not clear whether the author of this article is concerned about the increasing restrictions that are being placed on the necessary flow of information required for the advancement of technology, or concerned about the fact that people outside the USA may find out what people inside are doing. I hope the former concern is the one intended! We (the Western world) can easily lose whatever technological advantages we have if we go overboard in restricting information flow. We win by being firstest with the mostest, not by crawling into a shell and hugging our antique ideas. Martin Taylor