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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
First off, who the hell is this pournelle visionary that nobody's heard anything about but you, and why on earth do you see him as an authority?
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This doesn't sound like "nobody". |
For those who didn't understand to click through on "This" in wodin's post, here's a snippet from the article in Wikipedia which is referenced:
Pournelle was an intellectual protege of Russell Kirk (Kenneth C. Cole, Pournelle's mentor at the University of Washington, was co-founder with Kirk of Modern Age) and Stefan T. Possony with whom Pournelle wrote numerous publications including The Strategy of Technology, onetime textbook at the United States Military Academy (West Point) and the United States Air Force Academy (Colorado Springs). His work in the aerospace industry includes editing Project 75, a 1964 study of 1975 defense requirements. He worked in operations research at Boeing, The Aerospace Corporation, and North American Rockwell Space Division, and was founding President of the Pepperdine Research Institute.