It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all.
Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge although with plenty of care and diligence.
Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.
Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry.
Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed they just fail to act on that knowledge.
Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.
Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols coding and debugging testing and refactoring.
We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap the missile gap.
The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.
As a nation we have over the past seven years been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service our satellite and other technical collection our analytical depth and expertise.