Let me just check the back here...
Made and manufactured in China... Aah... No wonder mine is so slow and everyone else's is so fast... I
didn’t get the Alpha Centauri hardware!
But seriously though, it's an idea worth playing with.
On the one side we can ask, are humans really that "stupid" and primitive not to be able to invent Micro Processors?
It cannot be denied that there was an amazing technology boom in the past - say twenty years. Personally I don't think aliens had anything to do with
it. One invention led to the next, and so on and so forth. And money was behind it. I don't think people/the world was ever this driven to "make
money". It's a consumers market no doubt.
Let's say that aliens are in fact giving the government(s) some technologies. Why would they give them such "old" technology? Now this is in
comparison to their UFOs with the ability to travel at the speed of light (more or less - I don't know that for a fact

)... What drives them (ET)
to give us anything? Did they feel that the human race is taking too long to join the "Galactic United Nations"? Wouldn't they want something in
return? I mean nothing is for free. Do they get a couple of human lab rats in return for microwave technology?
I'm not yet convinced aliens gave us anything worthwhile - technology wise. Government "inventions" are a fraction of the actual inventions out
there. Does the government "sell" a technology to a private firm? Why not take the fame and glory for themselves?
In my opinion humans are smart enough to invent everything we have, and aliens are stingy with their technology.
So many questions. So little answers. Ask no questions. Hear no lies.
[edit on 12-5-2006 by Gemwolf]