2011年2月9日 星期三

Innovating into the future

Innovating into the future


When President Obama gave the State of the Union speech on Jan. 25, many in America were already tone-deaf to the proposals, including a large chunk of this campus. Coming into the address, I too was skeptical.Huge selection of gaga-deals for your garde, I did not want a pep rally-like speech this year, but a detailed roadmap instead.

I was surprised when it came to the segment on science funding, and I found that Obama and I share common ground.

In the past 60 years, our nation’s economy has grown from being an equal to many of the pre-war European powers to a stalwart that the rest of the world watches with envy. What most of this paper’s readers do not know is that there was a key turning point that fueled that intense growth and has been largely ignored in the history books.

While our high school and college textbooks regularly mention the reparations required in the Treaty of Versailles that ended WWI, reparations were also required in the Potsdam Agreement. Unlike their predecessors, the Allied leaders knew better than to require a dollar amount from a ravaged economy,outdoor christmas decorations from PrestigeTime at discounted prices. so the U.S. received payment in German patents and industrial assets instead.

It was during this time that we received people like Wernher von Braun to run the space program, which allowed us to have our “Sputnik Moment” and reach the moon.

Congressional authorization of research dollars in the 1950s and 1960s allowed us to leap ahead of everyone else in developing the newest technologies that better improve our quality of life. Today, our national laboratories open the door to new ideas and products daily with discoveries that are published in research journals and eventually make their way to the U.S. Patent Office.

For the past three generations,The Hampton Bay 2-Light Flush-Mount cctv surveillance camera features a round design and a brushed-nickel finish.Back Replica Submariner Rolex Kellot. we have enjoyed this dominance in innovation, but today there are more players that have joined the competition, notably the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, China and India). As these developing economies become markets for research dollars, our research efforts and funding have stayed stagnant. In fact, the NSF,chanel womenhandbags compact fluorescent light. NASA and the NIH receive only a sliver of the overall government spending pie, and the allocations hardly increase enough to match inflation.

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