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2006/6/20, stéphane ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch>:
> Hi philippe
>
> I think that this is good that we put pressure on Yann :)
> I already told him that.
> Now it would be good if indeed we could interactively publis, change,
> ical.
> And indeed it would be nice if this would be using what you did with
> david and may be based on pier.
> Yann could learn and build on top of what you did....
>
> Yann tell us.
>
> Stef
>
>
> On 20 juin 06, at 12:33, Philippe Marschall wrote:
>
> > I just asked what the goal is. If reinventing is the goal, I have no
> > problem with that.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > 2006/6/20, Gary Fisher <gafisher at sprynet.com>:
> >>
> >> >> Yann: "I was thinking of a nice webinterface, but google beat
> >> me on that
> >> ;)"
> >>
> >> >> Philippe: "So what would be the goal of this project? . . .
> >> reinvent the
> >> wheel?"
> >>
> >> It might be useful to note that the wheel has been reinvented
> >> many, many
> >> times, in forms as varied as clock gears, grain mills and jet engine
> >> turbines.  While each varies in its expression and implementation
> >> of the
> >> concept of "wheelness," none could be called the perfected form of
> >> wheel
> >> which obviates all others -- to the contrary, each has in turn led to
> >> innumerable reinventions of itself, most of which did not
> >> eliminate but
> >> rather added to what had gone before.
> >>
> >> Google has done many things well, and some very well, but nothing
> >> Google has
> >> accomplished can be said to have perfected the art to such an
> >> extent no
> >> improvements or adaptations are possible.  The trick is to look
> >> past Google,
> >> to pursue a vision not of what Google or any other innovator DID
> >> but of what
> >> they might -- or ought to -- or could -- have ASPIRED to.
> >>
> >> We don't need stronger oxcart wheels, we need pneumatic tires.  Or
> >> perhaps
> >> maglev.
> >>
> >> Gary
> >>
> >>
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