Re: R: Re: R: Re: a wish list
- From: "W. Nick Dotson" <nickdotson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 10:15:54 -0500
First of all, you err in your assumptions about me. I have been working
professionally in the field of blindness since 1978, as an educator and
rehabilitator,
and in the fields of product development/training/sales/and support since 1985.
That should encourage you to inhibit tendencies toward assumptive logic
and statements pertaining to others based on insufficient data regarding their
perspectives...
Next, prognostication is risky. Engineering systematic. The less
knowledgeable one is about any area, the more prone they are to "leaps of
faith" or
misapprehension and the more seceptible to the yoyo of hope and deflation of
that hope/or depression, when some problem not taken into account, or,
minimized difficulty causes a redefinition of a problem and the necessity to
rework it's apparently easy and overy hyped solution. I've been reading about
replacements to Pizo-electric braille displays since 1972, and none have come
to market. To hype an as yet unmanufactured, preprototype proof of concept
technology is a disservice to the technologically naive and ingnorant.
Similarly, to discuss problems and their solutions outside the practical
capabilities of
available technologies engineers can forge into a manufacturable and
potentially marketable wolution is a waste of time and energy--except possibly
for
accademics, or engineers gathered at a bar after 5:00pm. Similarly, without a
saleable business case, all the good ideas and intentions don't generate
requisite venture capital to bring a device into production and distribution.
This doesn't mean being dour--merely methodical. (grin)
Several of the companies mentioned in the article you reference have been
working toward where they are now for nearly 2 decades. Ray Kurzweil and
others at Xerox invisioned a paperless office, which has never come to
fruition, while other of their technological efforts have. However, they, and
others
rarely remember those prognostications which haven't come to fruition, rather,
they crow about those which have...
Nick
On Fri, 12 May 2006 15:24:25 +0100 (GMT+01:00), Francesca Diodati wrote:
eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=51200440
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