Was it all a dream?

Henry Cate, California — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:29:14 GMT

Thanks for the link on Duncan Watts. His points challenge "The Tipping Point" were interesting.

Was it all a dream?

Summer, Seattle, WA — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:46:20 GMT

I was completely sucked into that article on mutlitasking...all while eating lunch, answering the work phone, listening to music, updating my calendar...
Hope you're enjoying your time here in Seattle! It may be freezing, rainy, and windy, but at least the snow has stopped temporarily!

Was it all a dream?

phil, Chicago, IL — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:23:25 GMT

Will,

I gotta tell you. I have a business plan for you. Post much more often and watch the traffic come in. From my point of view, the best link site on the web (honestly). Just not enough updates.

Was it all a dream?

Clint, Chicago, Illinois — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:35:20 GMT

Heh ... and I feel vindicated. I've been saying this stuff ever since the PC leapt whole from Bill Gates' head.

Was it all a dream?

Will Femia — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:01:42 GMT

Phil, that's something that has plagued Clicked for as long as I've been writing it. On days when other work gets in the way I try to blog from home or on weekends but sometimes I just can't pull it off. If I could just write my thoughts and ideas I'd be OK, but having to actually read through this stuff or watch the videos just takes too much time and connectivity to whip them out when I have a few spare minutes. That said, I'm going to try to do just that today in between conference sessions. Of course that's going to mean some multitasking and we now know what that's all about.

Was it all a dream?

Sean, Oregon — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:58:36 GMT

Nothing is so useless as a brilliant, well thought out idea whose time has not come. There are many examples of ideas resurrected from the past that get implemented in a later time when the general populace is ready for them. It's not the influential people who are important, but the population at large being ready to implement the idea.

It's kind of why the patent system is in place. It exists to record inventor's ideas that at the time were useless but when applied at at later time with better materials, newer scientific understanding are actually usable to produce marketable product. It's also why it's a good idea to have patent rights die after a short period of time has passed to prevent the ideas from being locked up by cement headed inventors and/or cement headed businesses who buy the patents up and have no intention of really using those ideas.