idle speculation (was: Face down, nine-edge first)
Stephen Pair
spair at advantive.com
Sat May 13 19:47:04 UTC 2000
> That is my point - we still suffer from the early popularity of half
> baked ideas. Were we just unlucky or was that the inescapable path of
> computer evolution (and the sad rule of mainframe->mini->micro
> recapitulation)?
>
> Just wondering...
> -- Jecel
I think your latter suggestion is the more likely. It was more of an
inevitability than a matter of luck. The half baked ideas simply make it
out the door first. I think a re-conditioning of society to be more
accepting and even desiring of change is the only thing that can possibly
help speed technological progress. Yes, let's take the half-baked ideas,
but let us be willing to throw them out the door. Once people find a
solution, they are often blinded by it and that is dangerous...we must be
willing to accept that everything we think we know may be wrong.
- Stephen
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