Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 21:37:43 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Subject: Re: Nonsense discussion: dreaming up new technology Message-ID: <a0600120dbb49d9f4f682@[10.0.1.2]> In-Reply-To: <200307271927.h6RJRf2I036692@bitblocks.com> References: <200307271927.h6RJRf2I036692@bitblocks.com>
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At 12:27 PM -0700 2003/07/27, Bakul Shah wrote:
> Many of these people are focussing on display applications so
> it'll be a while before we get to what Neal Stephenson talks
> about in "The Diamond Age" -- where a computer is sandwiched
> between display surfaces.
Already underway. IIRC, Sharp recently printed some electronic
circuits for a simple CPU on top of an LCD.
>> So. Am I the first to imagine such a thing? How close is the
>> technology to actually doing it? What does everyone think about it?
>
> Not the first. But don't let that bother you! Keep at it!
> Think of *where* you would use it if it were available. Keep
> an inventor's log book and have it notarized periodically.
Agreed. This can be way-cool stuff, and inventions like this are
one of the only ways we geek-types can hope to be able to make
serious money. It's not like we can ever get paid like doctors or
lawyers, so we have to be inventors in a company and get rich on the
IPO.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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