[Viking2002]

It's going to take another Apollo-style Manhattan Project before there are any more new quantum leaps in technology. A new impetus is needed other than the everyday market forces, or we'll still be taking baby steps for the foreseeable future.

[dr_who_2]

It's going to take another Apollo-style Manhattan Project before there are any more new quantum leaps in technology.

Einstein, Maxwell, Watson, and Crick needed a pen, paper, and maybe a university. There are plenty of each. The inventors of the vacuum tube, transistor, and integrated circuits were employees of private companies. The Wright brothers financed their own work. New cience and technology doesn't come about because the POTUS spent gobs of cash on it and made it so. Satellites are useful, but so are computers, fiber optics, cars, vcrs, and all sorts of boring stuff that actually improves one's quality of life (here on Earth). A new impetus is needed other than the everyday market forces, or we'll still be taking baby steps for the foreseeable future.

Spoken like a true Democrat.