Introduction
Introduction
Introduction
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Why do we need it?<br />
Benefits from scientific advances are everywhere in our lives…<br />
Longer, healthier lives<br />
Ability to counter present and future threats to national security<br />
Address the challenges of difficult and complex problems of energy, food, and water<br />
Protect the global environment into feasible paths forward.<br />
Wealth…..85% of productivity growth in the first half of 20 th century …<br />
Technical Advances<br />
What are some of them?<br />
Google…..Larry Page’s Ph.D. thesis at Stanford<br />
Modern Imaging: MRIs….<br />
Weather satellites (weather predictions)<br />
Bar codes and recently QR codes recognizable y cell-phone cameras<br />
Forensics with DNA?<br />
Wings of airplanes<br />
Did we know we would need it at the time we funded it???<br />
NO!<br />
Do we know what the future brings?
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