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From the December 2002-January 2003 issue of The Industrial Physicist:

Will innovation flourish in the future?
- Jerome I. Friedman

In modern industrial nations, quantum mechanics contributed to the Internet, computers, lasers, atomic clocks, the Global Positioning System, and superconductors. But who is going to do the basic research that will form the basis for the next technology revolutions?

From the December 2002-January 2003 issue of The Industrial Physicist. This article is copyright American Institute of Physics and may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics.

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