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Breaking the Ice
Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
President Eisenhower, in his last great address wherein he coined the term “military-industrial complex,” foresaw the state of military R&D almost a century in the future with shocking clarity.
Since all computer CPUs were required by American law to have a backdoor built in to ensure no criminal could escape justice, and since almost all CPU chips for the whole world were designed in America, the entire universe of computing lay open at the feet of the American government.
Of course, the crypto codes to unlock this backdoor were the most prized of all possible secrets, lusted after by governments and most corporations worldwide. Most of the people of America confidently presumed these most clo
