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| Authored by: stegu on Sunday, April 15 2012 @ 04:45 PM EDT |
Pfft. He took until 1991 to see that coming?
There's nothing new or difficult in predicting a
Star Trek style personal communicator with both
text and voice interfaces as well as recording
and networking functions. It has been done numerous
times in SF literature. Restating old fictional themes
as "business predictions" does not make them any more
real. Not until someone actually builds the device.
Myhrvold did not.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 15 2012 @ 05:01 PM EDT |
How come he didn't patent it?
Woulda been a right li'l money spinner in his licensing stable.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Sunday, April 15 2012 @ 07:53 PM EDT |
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| Authored by: artp on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 12:40 AM EDT |
Myhrvold predicted the Palm Treo /nt
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Userfriendly on WGA server outage:
When you're chained to an oar you don't think you should go down when the galley
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| Authored by: MadTom1999 on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 06:22 AM EDT |
I seem to remember this was being considered when I was working on mobile phone
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