Just like the FBI of Arlo Guthrie's day.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Len Bullard [mailto:]
> Sent: July 9, 2012 09:02
> To: Costello, Roger L.;
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] [OT] What are the key technical
> problems of our era?
>
> If we tell you then the Chinese will know.
>
> len
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Costello, Roger L. [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2012 4:27 PM
> To:
> Subject: [xml-dev] [OT] What are the key technical problems
> of our era?
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> In the 15th and 16th century a key problem was that there
> were no accurate clocks. Accurate clocks were needed by ships
> at sea to determine their position. Smart individuals, such
> as the Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist
> Christian Huygens, worked and solved this problem with the
> creation of the pendulum clock along with its mathematical
> underpinnings.
>
> What are the key technical problems of our time?
>
> What waters can we not sail today because we do not have the
> technology and the math and science underpinnings to enable it?
>
> /Roger
>
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