COMPARED with Davos, Ditchley and Aspen, the Highland Forum is far less well known, yet it is arguably just as influential a talking shop. An occasional gathering of civilian and military intellectuals founded in 1994 by retired US navy captain Dick O’Neill and financed by the Pentagon, it brings together a couple of dozen innovative people to consider interactions between policy and technology. Its biggest successes have been in the development of high-tech network-based warfare.
One such innovative Highland fellow is John Henry Clippinger, an academic and writer on technology strategy and policy, artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. A member…
