Innovation: The Key to Prosperity, Technology & America's Role in the 21st Century Global Economy - Softcover

Melissaratos, Aris; Slabbert, N. J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982373406 ISBN 13: 9780982373408

Verlag: Lightning Source Inc, 2009

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An incisive diagnosis of America’s economic meltdown. Searingly indicts decades of technological complacency and anti-scientific propaganda that’s left America hostage to energy cartels, inept bailout-seekers, cripplingly obsolete technology and worthless financial paper. Formidably informed yet cracklingly vivid and compulsively readable. Johns Hopkins University’s chief technology enterprise expert (former COO of a multibillion-dollar high-tech firm) and an honored scholar / former Reader’s Digest senior editor show how modern America was created by technology but lost its technological nerve around the 1960s. Showing that innovation isn’t spontaneous but demands careful nurture, and about the 21st century, it argues that “returning America to the technology standard” can build a magnificent civilization with mass employment, environmental wisdom and energy sufficiency. A brilliant intellectual detective story, lucidly explaining how nanotechnology, the knowledge economy, magnetic levitation, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, global warming, energy research, the Internet and physics are intertwined and relate urgently to government policy. “Could not have come at a better time.” -J.S.Gansler, former US UnderSecretary of Defense. “Essential reading." –G.F.Decker, former Science Advisor to US Secretary of Defense. "There is only one way out of the country’s economic, environmental and energy mess and it is described with rare clarity in this book."-Manufacturing & Technology News. "Excitingly signposts the way out of America’s crisis of confidence. All business, government and educational leaders will benefit from this timely, nationally and internationally relevant work.” -Emily DeRocco, President, National Center for the American Workforce, former US Assist.Sec. of Labor.

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Aris Melissaratos is a founder of Armel Scientifics, LLC, an investor in over 30 start-up companies in advanced technology. He has been honored as the Baltimore Museum of Industry’s 2009 Industrialist of the Year. He was named the Greater Baltimore Technology Council’s Extraordinary Technology Advocate of 2008. He worked for Westinghouse Electric Corporation 32 Years, retiring as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President for Science and Technology responsible for research and development. He also served as Chief Operations Officer for Westinghouse’s Defense Electronics Group, where he was responsible for $3.2 billion in sales. He recently established the Aris Institute, a private foundation to promote technology innovation. Honored technology scholar-writer N.J. Slabbert, a former Reader’s Digest senior editor and staff writer, is co-author of The Intellectual versus the City: Anti-urbanism in America from Jefferson to the 21st Century, with philosopher Morton White, of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and Rescue Mission: How US Military Research & Technology Can Help Save Our Economy, introduced by former Vice Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral William A. Owens, both due to be published later this year. His work has appeared in many publications ranging from the Harvard International Review to the Washington Post. He has advised government agencies and companies working in fields from medicine and pharmaceuticals to electronics, telecommunications and environmental technology.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Lightning Source Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0982373406
• ISBN 13: 9780982373408
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 284
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