Federation of American Scientists Space Policy Project director John Pike.
FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS The Federation of American Scientists (FAS)[1] is a non-profit organization formed in 1945 by scientists from the Manhattan Project who felt that scientists, engineers and other innovators had an ethical obligation to bring their knowledge and experience to bear Space Policy Project director
John Pike John Pike is the name of: - John Pike (settler), a 16th century British immigrant to America
- John E. Pike, American scientist and political consultant
on a $9 billion satellite network that Microsoft chairman Bill
Gates (person) Bill Gates - William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. and McCaw Cellular founder Craig McCaw propose to build: "God
save us, it's the stupidest damn thing I've ever heard of.
Terrestrial telephone is much less expensive to implement, and who would
use their system who could afford it?" (Quoted in The Wall Street
Journal, 3/22/94)
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