No longer science & technology projects, high-energy laser weapons are now operational [More]
So when power packs shrink and individual infantry weapons become a reality…?
This is why, understanding core purpose, “in common use at the time” has to be applied not to what is “popular” with sportsmen, but to what is available on conventional battlefields and to enforcement authorities.
Remember when it took a roomful of computers to attain a fraction of the calculating power of your cell phone? I remember when a prominent mathematician precited a limit to computational capacity based on a point where tubes burn out and need to be replaced.
What I’m using now would have been considered the stuff of mad scientist fiction.
[Via Jess]
