The next president should avoid reliance on expensive and unworkable antimissile technologies and not take steps that would lead Russia to rearm.
Their idea, developed in the late 1940s and patented 60 years ago this fall, turned out to be ahead of its time — unworkable until other technologies were developed.
The Pittsburgh Symphony tried a screen but decided that the technology was unworkable.
Two decades earlier it had dismissed the technology as unworkable, and later, as too small a market.
Technology experts said it was unworkable, because the storage space required would be too vast and the security services would not have the capacity to sift the data, let alone undo encryption.
The possible deployment of the laser, though its geographic range is modest, represents a striking turnaround for an antimissile technology that was criticized as unworkable in the Strategic Defense Initiative of the 1980's.
Both the American and European technology industries have contended that the rules are unworkable and that they amount to trade protectionism.
Football Association referees' committee chairman David Elleray, himself a former top official, backed the use of technology for goal-line incidents, but insisted it was unworkable beyond that.
This produced a hunting economy providing food and great quantities of bone, horn, skin, sinews, and, while the mammoth lasted, ivory; with it grew new technologies exploiting the unique properties of materials hitherto unworkable because of their hardness.
Although advances in computer technology have promoted the application of CFD, the study of WFA is yet unworkable with Direct Numerical Simulation, which is the most comprehensive CFD technique.
