That's a nice story, and I'm sure it's make a big impact on the people with the stutter, but it's a far cry from changing the world. And wouldn't you give more credit to the people who actually did the research on that project?
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com>wrote: > > What did he do tho change the world? > > Consider this. After I finished my master's degree I was awarded a > fellowship to develop a computer based version of a stuttering therapy > system. Because of an Apple grant, we were given 25 Mac Pluses (OK I'm > dating myself here), a couple of Mac II servers and SCSI based hard > drives for each machine. Because of the Mac's capacities as a > multimedia device the development of the computer based stuttering > therapy system ended up being very successful. We tried to duplicate > this using PC's but it turned out not to be cost effective. > > My followup research showed that after therapy almost all the people > going through the program did not stutter at the end of the program. > The two year followup showed that over 75% maintained that fluency. > > I cannot say about the entire world, but for the world of these people > the Mac certainly changed their world for the better. > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Medic <hofme...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I know I'm not part of the popular crowd by asking this... but other than > > make some cool hardware what did Jobs really do to "change the world?" > > Everyone keeps saying he changed the way we live, but I don't see it. > Maybe > > for super dedicated fanbois, but for the average Joe? What did it do? You > > have a cool phone and a cool mp3 player, but so what? If everyone was > using > > non-iPod mp3 players or blackberry's how would life be any less? > > > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Gruss Gott <grussg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> > >> C. Hatton Humphrey <chumph...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> > http://xkcd.com/961/ > >> > > >> > As obscure as it is, once I "got it" I thought it was a beautiful > thing. > >> > > >> > >> Very cool. The guy did so much to change so many things for the > >> better and was such an innovator ... and died before his time you can > >> see how religion gets started > >> > >> > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:343312 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
