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Weapons Grade: Revealing the Links Between Modern Warfare and Our High Tech World Kindle Edition

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Predicting how the business world might evolve is itself a multi-million-dollar business. Plenty of gurus, academics and snake-oil salesmen will tell you all about the future for a price. What the experts overlook is that the future is already here.

Chances are the products and services of tomorrow are available now to a very limited clientele at a top-secret research institute near you. Throughout history, war and its threat have driven innovation and the uptake of new technology from the ancient swordsmiths who pioneered the use of iron to the Pentagon bureaucrats who funded the early internet. And since 1945 the relationship between military needs and modern business has grown ever closer.

As well as telling the story of technology transfer in the past, Hambling explores the cutting edge of modern military research. Throughout he seeks to identify the technologies that will transform business and society in the decades to come. If history does repeat itself, Weapons Grade will be a book about the future of business with a difference: rather than learning more about the shape of current preoccupations, Hambling's readers will discover something about the future of business.

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B015D9HL90
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Constable (September 1, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 1, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1046 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
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David Hambling
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Non- Fiction: (Swarm Troopers, Weapons Grade) David Hambling is a freelance technology journalist based in South London.

He writes for New Scientist magazine, Aviation Week, Popular Mechanics, WIRED, The Economist, The Guardian newspaper and others.

Fiction (Shadows From Norwood series): Norwood in South London has deep roots. When I first moved here in 2001, I thought that that all London's history, like all the tourist sites, lay North of the river. I was wrong. Scratch the surface and this place is older and stranger than you think.

The houses on my street are modern; but they are built on Musto's Field, the name a corruption of 'Moot-Stow', a medieval village meeting place. The unremarkable woodland overlooking the garden is a remnant of the primeval Great North Wood which became Norwood. A wood notorious for outlaws, gypsies, hermits and other strange folk.

Our River Effra runs was diverted into an underground sewer a century ago. What hidden creatures flop and scuttle down there, what unhallowed Things are buried beneath those old oak trees, trees untouched since Druids sacrificed beneath them? I mused, and Shadows from Norwood crawled forth...

Follow the series on Facebook here - https://www.facebook.com/ShadowsFromNorwood

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