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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zoltan! who wrote (17811)	7/29/1998 6:41:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 20981

Zoltan, When I say "people from Berkeley", what I am referring to, is the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, as well as the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. THere is a fine line in many cases as to how many projects in the 60s were funded, that is to say, some things were funded as defense projects, others the space program. If you are willing to say that "defense spending" was the catalyst for the high-tech economy we have now then I would say we agree. Talk about a sematic issue! Gee too bad I dont have the actual charge number they used at Livermore to develop teflon, or whatever. Sheesh. And unfortunately, when it comes to the early 60s, all I can do is rely on conventional wisdom as far as who initiated the push into space and high technology. Conventional wisdom is that Kennedy did it. Johnson may have carried the torch, true but thats like saying Oracle invented the relational database isnt it (the first distributed rdbms was R* out of IBM Santa Theresa). Michelle