To be honest, I do not fully understand the meaning of the term
"central planning". Is NASA central planning? What if they sourced
their parts and even research from diverse entities? Confusing stuff
(to me).
A long time ago, on LBO talk, Doug noted (and I paraphrase, no doubt
very badly) that while Indian and Chinese development was built on a
serious techno-scientific base, Russia had nothing of that sort but
instead its recent wealth (at that time) was purely based on oil. I
will not spar with the man on the data: he is undoubtedly right about
the oil factor. But what I did point out to him was that I could
hardly agree with his idea that [the status of] India's science and
technology was superior to that of Russia/Soviet Union. As children,
only when we were done solving the problems in our school-mandated
mathematics or physics textbooks and similar Western texts, would we
even consider approaching the lovely Russian equivalents that no
Western Iron Curtain could block from us.
And as a reminder of what was accomplished by this giant, I offer this
bit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-144
The Tupolev Tu-144 (NATO name: Charger) was the world's first
supersonic transport aircraft (SST, with its first flight preceding
that of Concorde), constructed under the direction of the Soviet
Tupolev design bureau headed by Alexei Tupolev.
A prototype first flew on 31 December 1968 near Moscow, two months
before the similar Aérospatiale / British Aircraft Corporation
Concorde. The Tu-144 first broke the speed of sound on 5 June 1969,
and on 15 July 1969 it became the first commercial transport to
exceed Mach two, and it was at the time the fastest commercial-type
airliner.
Maybe central planning doesn't work for call centers and "BPO"? ;-) (I
kid because I can... its like using the N word).
--ravi
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