The first time that I can think of that a human had to maneuver a vessel to bring weapons to bear with sailing ships.

Sometimes these engagements could take literally weeks.

You'd see the sails coming over the horizon, and so people would begin to prepare for battle.

Once they got into close maneuvering range, now you had to bring guns to bear,

typically pointed out the front and sides and rear of the ship,

and the idea was to disable the ship, shooting off masks or rudders or whatever they could,

and then board. And when you look at the initial aerial warfare,

the idea was you had to bring guns to bear.

In World War I, the primary product that airplanes provided in the early stages was aerial reconnaissance.

There's never been a more valuable product than information about the adversary and what they're doing.

And what airplanes, early airplanes gave people, and you even see it with balloons, right, was the ability to get up high and see things.

Let's take the cameras up there, let's go see what the other guys are doing over the next hill or over the thing that they don't want us to see.

And then, of course, you know, the adversary kind of ruined that

because there was the first dude who brought a gun onto his airplane

to keep you from taking pictures.

So, yeah, that's kind of how things are started.

On the stone floor of the California Academy of Sciences headquarters,

you will find these words.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent.

It is the one that is most adaptable to change.

Throughout civilization, advancements have been made due to the need to survive.

So it's no secret that the adaptation successful for life would be successful in the technologies we create.

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