Worse still, Mr Cowen reckons that the gains from two centuries of rapid technological innovation are largely exhausted, and that new discoveries lack the same revolutionary quality.
It turns out the human element still trumps the technological element in warfare, and that digital networks are no better than the quality of the information they are conveying.
It is undeniably a high quality company, having just celebrated its 100th anniversary, transformed through numerous technological changes, and continuing to grow.