Emerging technologies and exponential change: implications for Army transformation.

From: Parameters | Date: June 22, 2002| Author: Nygren, Kip P. | Copyright information

Revolutionary technological change on an exponentially growing scale is already here and mandates that the Army institute a continuous transformation process that includes all areas of doctrine, training, leadership, organization, and technology. The continuing wave of technological change is different from even the information technology revolution of the 1990s in two ways. First, it is a vastly more profound transformation due to the synergy of three emerging technologies: bio-en...

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