The Ideas Engine Needs a Tuneup

Technology is about taking risks. Government bureaucracy is about avoiding mistakes. The mismatch between the two is creating a funding squeeze that could undermine America's dominance of the new technologies that will be crucial to the nation's security in the 21st century.

That was the disturbing consensus among a group of the nation's leading scientists who gathered here last week to discuss the converging technologies that are transforming the ... Full Story »