‏117.00 ₪

The Imagineers of War

‏117.00 ₪
ISBN13
9780804169721
יצא לאור ב
New York
זמן אספקה
21 ימי עסקים
עמודים
496
פורמט
Paperback / softback
תאריך יציאה לאור
20 בפבר׳ 2018
Founded in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik, the agency's original mission was to create "the unimagined weapons of the future." Over the decades, DARPA has been responsible for countless inventions and technologies that extend well beyond military technology. Sharon Weinberger gives us a riveting account of DARPA's successes and failures, its remarkable innovations, and its wild-eyed schemes. We see how the threat of nuclear Armageddon sparked investment in computer networking, leading to the Internet, as well as to a proposal to power a missile-destroying particle beam by draining the Great Lakes. We learn how DARPA was responsible during the Vietnam War for both Agent Orange and the development of the world's first armed drones, and how after 9/11 the agency sparked a national controversy over surveillance with its data-mining research. And we see how DARPA's success with self-driving cars was followed by disappointing contributions to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
מידע נוסף
עמודים 496
פורמט Paperback / softback
ISBN10 0804169721
יצא לאור ב New York
תאריך יציאה לאור 20 בפבר׳ 2018
זמן אספקה 21 ימי עסקים