By “effective” we mean, propaganda that is more successful at persuading someone to adopt someone else’s agenda: “What really makes people trust VR more is that it creates a…
Some of the best inventors I know didn’t have a deep knowledge of any particular technology. They had a deep understanding of what the need is and what we would today call intuition — because we don’t know at the granular level what intuition is — they’d have an intuition about how to solve the problem and then they might go to PhDs for help in implementation.
I think invention is maybe like love. Everybody wants to have it. Nobody knows what it is. It’s an amorphic process. The public has an overly simplistic view of inventors. They suddenly have this brilliant vision and they go running down the street saying,“eureka I’ve got it!” Invention is an iterative, frustrating process in which you keep finding all the wrong ways to get to where you wanted to go. You back up, try a new route, hit another stumbling block, fall down. Eventually you integrate enough of the ideas that might have should have could have would have worked into something that actually does work. Then the world sees it and think it was a straight line from your idea to that solution. That there was instant clarity. As opposed to this iterative, long struggle.
I find people like Dean Kamen, Elon Musk, etc to be incredibly inspiring in their tenacity in pursuing and find solutions to real world problems – as compared to those creating endless social media thingies in Silicon Valley 🙂
If you enjoy the process of discovery, invention and engineering solutions, this is a great and enjoyable article to read – highly recommended!
Caller ID spoofing enables someone to make it look like they are calling from a different phone number than their own. A smart phone app like this was allegedly used by the alleged “swatter” that resulted in the death of an innocent young father in Wichita, Kansas.
Per ComputerWorld, starting in 2018 and really getting underway by 2019, Android apps in the Google Play Store will be required to target new Android OS versions. Gradually, older phones with older Android OS’s may not be able to run new and updated apps.
The problem is compounded by many phone companies never releasing updated versions of Android, which will have the effect of gradually obsoleting perfectly good smart phones and forcing users to buy new phones.
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