Pakistan's army became a nuclear proliferator, supplying technology to North Korea, Iran and Libya.
But the IT company Atos will also be supplying technology so why wouldn't we collaborate?
In the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo we'll be supplying technology.
We also now understand that population-control strategies aren't about supplying technology but about changing minds.
Still, the weakness in I.B.M.'s business of supplying technology parts to other companies was not a surprise.
And, from the late 1950s, what became Thompson Ramo Wooldridge (TRW) was also supplying technology – and technologists – to Nasa, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
It also has a power equipment division, supplying technology to allow generators to switch between fuel sources.
"The developing picture, however, indicates that the Khan network received at least $100 million for supplying technology, equipment and know-how" to Libya, he said.
Companies such as Visionics Corporation, Viisage and Miro are in the business of developing and supplying technology for the ongoing (it is always ongoing) "securitisation" of identities.
Aurora, which was founded in 1995, was profitable last year but is now operating at break even as it has shifted from supplying technology to trying to develop drugs.
