Popular Science sat down with Lockheed Martin's Chief Technology Officer Ray Johnson to talk about the future of war and the future of technology. The conversation started with lasers, worked its way through 3-D printing, and ended with a perspective on the military aircraft of the future.
While modern technology finally makes it possible to conduct the Breit-Wheeler process for the first time, Pike says they'll have only just begun to scratch the surface of its capabilities; as lasers become more powerful over time, scientists will be able to produce more and different particles than just positron-electron pairs. He says their initial discovery, though accidental, was ultimately an inevitable scientific advance.
For all the amazing technology developed by and for American defense and intelligence agencies, the government's spooks are apparently lagging way behind in one key area: Smartphones. That means no mobile email or Angry Birds for the US spy corps. One NSA agent is trying to change that.
