Re: [CTRL] IT will change the world!
-Caveat Lector- New member here... What is the it website URL? I'm working on a project called Gilligan. It will change the world too. What a coincidence ;) peat From: Jenny Decker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] IT will change the world! Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:32:48 -0800 -Caveat Lector- I finally got through to the "IT" website--everyone in the US must have been accessing it over the last 24 hours. Does anyone know if there is a chat site that is recording guesses as to what "IT" is? I have ideas, based upon the reference to "Ginger" . . . Jenny Decker - Original Message - From: "Kelly" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 8:19 PM Subject: [CTRL] IT will change the world! -Caveat Lector- Tuesday, January 9, 2000 From The Inside, http://www.inside.com/jcs/Story?article_id=20218pod_id=8 What Is 'IT'? Book Proposal Heightens Intrigue About Secret Invention Touted as Bigger Than the Internet or PC Steve Jobs quoted on accomplished scientist's new device: 'If enough people see the machine you won't have to convince them to architect cities around it. It'll just happen.' A venerable press pays $250,000 for a book on project cloaked in unprecedented secrecy. EXCLUSIVE Got a clue? Post your guess as to what IT is. by PJ Mark Tuesday , January 09, 2001 01:43 p.m. Harvard Business School Press executive editor Hollis Heimbouch has just paid $250,000 for a book about IT -- but neither the editor nor the agent, Dan Kois of The Sagalyn Literary Agency, knows what IT is. All they do know: IT, also code-named Ginger, is an invention developed by 49-year-old scientist Dean Kamen, and the subject of a planned book by journalist Steve Kemper. According to Kemper's proposal, IT will change the world, and is so extraordinary that it has drawn the attention of technology visionaries Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs and the investment dollars of pre-eminent Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr, among others. Kemper -- who has been published in Smithsonian, National Geographic and Outside among others -- has had exclusive access to Kamen and the engineers at his New Hampshire-based research and development company, DEKA, for the past year and a half. He tags the proposed book as Soul of the New Machine meets The New New Thing and won over his agent and publisher with e-mails describing the project in carefully couched language. He also included an amusing narrative of a meeting between Bezos, Jobs, Doerr and Kamen. The invention itself is as interesting as the inventor. Kamen is 'a true eccentric, cantankerous and opinionated, a great character,' the proposal says, with large gaps when it comes to pop culture. In the proposal, Doerr calls Kamen -- who was just awarded the National Medal of Technology, the country's highest such award -- a combination of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison. Doerr also says, a touch ominously, that he had been sure that he wouldn't see the development of anything in his lifetime as important as the World Wide Web -- until he saw IT. According to the proposal, another investor, Credit Suisse First Boston, expects Kamen's invention to make more money in its first year than any start-up in history, predicting Kamen will be worth more in five years than Bill Gates. Jobs told Kamen the invention would be as significant as the PC, the proposal says. And though there are no specifics in the proposal as to what the invention is, there are some tantalizing clues. Is IT an energy source? Some sort of environmentally friendly personal transport device? One editor who saw the proposal went as far as to speculate -- jokingly (perhaps) -- that IT was a type of personal hovering craft. Consider the following items, culled from the proposal: IT is not a medical invention. In a private meeting with Bezos, Jobs and Doerr, Kamen assembled two Gingers -- or ITs -- in 10 minutes, using a screwdriver and hex wrenches from components that fit into a couple of large duffel bags and some cardboard boxes. The invention has a fun element to it, because once a Ginger was turned on, Bezos started laughing his ''loud, honking laugh.'' There are possibly two Ginger models, named Metro and Pro -- and the Metro may possibly cost less than $2,000. Bezos is quoted as saying that IT ''is a product so revolutionary, you'll have no problem selling it. The question is, are people going to be allowed to use it?'' Jobs is quoted as saying: ''If enough people see the machine you won't have to convince them to architect cities around it. It'll just happen.'' Kemper says the invention will ''sweep over the world and change lives, cities, and ways of thinking.'' The ''core technology and its implementations'' will,
Re: [CTRL] IT will change the world!
-Caveat Lector- More Info From CNET's AnchorDesk MYSTERIOUS INVENTION 'BIGGER THAN PC' http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?/adeskb/adt0112/2673881:17322488 No news spreads as fast as a good secret. The latest secret is an invention by Dean Kamen that some tech heavyweights say is bigger than the PC and likely to change the world. I'll tell you what we know and give you a chance to sound off. Peat From: Jenny Decker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] IT will change the world! Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:32:48 -0800 -Caveat Lector- I finally got through to the "IT" website--everyone in the US must have been accessing it over the last 24 hours. Does anyone know if there is a chat site that is recording guesses as to what "IT" is? I have ideas, based upon the reference to "Ginger" . . . Jenny Decker - Original Message - From: "Kelly" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 8:19 PM Subject: [CTRL] IT will change the world! -Caveat Lector- Tuesday, January 9, 2000 From The Inside, http://www.inside.com/jcs/Story?article_id=20218pod_id=8 What Is 'IT'? Book Proposal Heightens Intrigue About Secret Invention Touted as Bigger Than the Internet or PC Steve Jobs quoted on accomplished scientist's new device: 'If enough people see the machine you won't have to convince them to architect cities around it. It'll just happen.' A venerable press pays $250,000 for a book on project cloaked in unprecedented secrecy. EXCLUSIVE Got a clue? Post your guess as to what IT is. by PJ Mark Tuesday , January 09, 2001 01:43 p.m. Harvard Business School Press executive editor Hollis Heimbouch has just paid $250,000 for a book about IT -- but neither the editor nor the agent, Dan Kois of The Sagalyn Literary Agency, knows what IT is. All they do know: IT, also code-named Ginger, is an invention developed by 49-year-old scientist Dean Kamen, and the subject of a planned book by journalist Steve Kemper. According to Kemper's proposal, IT will change the world, and is so extraordinary that it has drawn the attention of technology visionaries Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs and the investment dollars of pre-eminent Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr, among others. Kemper -- who has been published in Smithsonian, National Geographic and Outside among others -- has had exclusive access to Kamen and the engineers at his New Hampshire-based research and development company, DEKA, for the past year and a half. He tags the proposed book as Soul of the New Machine meets The New New Thing and won over his agent and publisher with e-mails describing the project in carefully couched language. He also included an amusing narrative of a meeting between Bezos, Jobs, Doerr and Kamen. The invention itself is as interesting as the inventor. Kamen is 'a true eccentric, cantankerous and opinionated, a great character,' the proposal says, with large gaps when it comes to pop culture. In the proposal, Doerr calls Kamen -- who was just awarded the National Medal of Technology, the country's highest such award -- a combination of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison. Doerr also says, a touch ominously, that he had been sure that he wouldn't see the development of anything in his lifetime as important as the World Wide Web -- until he saw IT. According to the proposal, another investor, Credit Suisse First Boston, expects Kamen's invention to make more money in its first year than any start-up in history, predicting Kamen will be worth more in five years than Bill Gates. Jobs told Kamen the invention would be as significant as the PC, the proposal says. And though there are no specifics in the proposal as to what the invention is, there are some tantalizing clues. Is IT an energy source? Some sort of environmentally friendly personal transport device? One editor who saw the proposal went as far as to speculate -- jokingly (perhaps) -- that IT was a type of personal hovering craft. Consider the following items, culled from the proposal: IT is not a medical invention. In a private meeting with Bezos, Jobs and Doerr, Kamen assembled two Gingers -- or ITs -- in 10 minutes, using a screwdriver and hex wrenches from components that fit into a couple of large duffel bags and some cardboard boxes. The invention has a fun element to it, because once a Ginger was turned on, Bezos started laughing his ''loud, honking laugh.'' There are possibly two Ginger models, named Metro and Pro -- and the Metro may possibly cost less than $2,000. Bezos is quoted as saying that IT ''is a product so revolutionary, you'll have no problem selling it. The question is, are people going to be allowed to use it?'' Jobs is quoted as saying: ''If enough people see the machine you won't have to
