Hi Chunka, I've been challenged on this point more than once, and have challenged back to come up with one invention that was done after 1980 that matches up to the top 10 done before 1980.
This has not happened. I've been able to show the prior art for all suggestions. Essentially everything in the last 30 years has been commercializations and other forms of "innovation" based on what was funded by ARPA, ONR, and by extension, Xerox in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. The important point here is that there are many new inventions needed, and they can be identified, but no one has been willing to fund them. It's not that the early birds got the worms, but that most of the needed worms out there are being missed. Cheers, Alan ________________________________ From: Chunka Mui <[email protected]> To: Alan Kay <[email protected]> Cc: Carlos Rabassa <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; squeakland.org mailing list <[email protected]>; Maho 2010 <[email protected]>; IAEP SugarLabs <[email protected]>; voluntarios y administradores OLPC para usuarios docentes <[email protected]>; olpc bolivia <[email protected]>; OLPC Puno <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, February 5, 2011 10:53:44 AM Subject: Re: [squeakland] [IAEP] Plan Ceibal y/and General Electric On Jan 30, 2011, at 9:21 AM, Alan Kay <[email protected]> wrote: GE is being congratulated for recognizing that the iPhone and iPad are pretty good ideas and technological realizations. But isn't this like the congratulations Bill Gates got for finally recognizing the Internet (about 25 years after it had started working)? > >Seems as though Apple had a lot more on the ball than Bill Gates or GE here >(they used to do computing in the 60s, but couldn't see what it was). > >And most of the ideas at Apple (and for personal computing and the Internet) >came from research funding that no company or government has been willing to >do >since 1982. > Alan -- Could you say more about this point? Surely there's been tons of CS and IT funding since '82, both govt funding to universities and massive research budgets at msft, hp, Regards, Chunka Cheers, > >Alan > > > ________________________________ From: Carlos Rabassa <[email protected]> >To: [email protected]; squeakland.org mailing list ><[email protected]>; Maho 2010 <[email protected]>; IAEP SugarLabs ><[email protected]>; voluntarios y administradores OLPC para usuarios >docentes <[email protected]>; olpc bolivia ><[email protected]>; OLPC Puno <[email protected]> >Sent: Sun, January 30, 2011 4:11:49 AM >Subject: [IAEP] Plan Ceibal y/and General Electric > >We try to learn from those who have succeed for a long time: > >https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1XWm2q8nQ-l5KUJ_PWkQruLDx-nZ7nsKDfg4idDlsU50 > > >Carlos Rabassa >_______________________________________________ >IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >[email protected] >http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > _______________________________________________ >squeakland mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland >
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