Good read. Truly open source.
Today, Dyson frequently writes about science and technology's relationship to ethics and social issues. Business Insider sat down with him and talked about math, war, the human brain, the education system, and the Orion Project.
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There was one of the generals in Afghanistan who wrote a paper, which was leaked by somebody, describing what happened in Afghanistan — and it’s exactly what happened to us in World War II.
They had this huge system of information gathering in Afghanistan. They had satellites. They had drones flying over all the time, and people on the ground collecting information. This was all then collected and sent to some place in Virginia, where there were thousands of expert analysts looking at all this information.
So you had this whole apparatus gathering intelligence — all one way, just going from Afghanistan to Virginia. But nothing ever came back. This was all so secret. It wasn’t allowed for the information to get back to the soldiers, who might have used it.
