governmental disclosure of ground breaking science and technology

[dragonstar57]

the government doesn't have to tell us about their experimental technology or ground breaking sciences. but if they don't keep us informed to some extant they would need to educate their new scientists and techs in advanced material before they could begin working. so how close does the tech and science available to civilians compare government tech.

 

 

p.s i understand if this thread is moved to speculations but I think that it deserves to remain here. but should it be sent to speculations please don't close the topic to new replys

[swansont]

It depends — not all government tech is classified, and there are many examples of the government patenting some process or invention and then transferring it to the private sector. I learned a bunch of things "on the job" and I imagine that's the same way it would happen on some hush-hush project. Much the same as probably happens in industry with proprietary information.

 

As far as any disparity is concerned, if the government tech has been classified and not leaked, the answer is that nobody can say.

[John Cuthber]

I work for the government and practically none of the stuff we do is anything special. The only bits that don't make it into the public domain are reports containing commercially confidential stuff that would affect, for example, the share prices of companies.Even that data gets out eventually.

 

The "ground breaking" stuff is generally done by universities and, as they have a "publish or perish" mentality I suspect not much stays hidden for long.