Re: [Vo]:Innovation tends to come from outside
The defense and intelligence competition has produced much innovation and technology improvement to commercial interests spinoffs which includes nuclear power, the computer, software, GPS, TNT, space science, the internet, air travel, electronics, RADAR, to name just a few. The defense use and development of LENR will also be pivotal in the near future since energy utilization is now the top preoccupation of most defense systems planners. On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Many writers such as Christensen have pointed out that innovation tends to > come from outside an industry. Containerized shipping is a classic > example. It was developed by Malcom McLean, and industry outsider. That is > why cold fusion is unlikely to be developed by mainstream energy companies. > > Innovation not only comes from people outside the mainstream, it often > comes from places physically removed from the mainstream, such as Dayton, > Ohio. In the case of cold fusion, the biggest academic project is a U. > Missouri, not MIT, CalTech, Georgia Tech or any of the other leading > technology institutions. U. Missouri is a great place. It was founded by > Thomas Jefferson. Robert Duncan is a great guy. But still, it is physically > removed from the mainstream and the Big Gun east and west coast > institutions. > > The 19th century industrial revolution was centered in England, but many > of the inventions and ideas came from Scotland. > > Anyway, here are some cynical but thought provoking ideas about this > subject -- > > http://blog.findings.com/post/20527246081/how-we-will-read-clay-shirky > > As this author puts it: "Institutions will try to preserve the problem for > which they are the solution." > > I like the quote about the PDF format being "where data goes to die." I > have often had an uneasy feeling that is true, and it bothers me since > everything at LENR-CANR is in PDF format. I try to hang on to original > sources such as .doc files and graphic images. > > QUOTES: > > Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word > “publishing” means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the > incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something > public. That’s not a *job* anymore. That’s a *button*. There’s a button > that says “publish,” and when you press it, it’s done. > > . . . > > The original promise of the e-book was not a promise to the reader, it was > a promise to the publisher: “We will design something that appears on a > screen, but it will be as inconvenient as if it were a physical object.” > This is the promise of the portable document format, where data goes to > die, as well. > > Institutions will try to preserve the problem for which they are the > solution. Now publishers are in the business not of overcoming scarcity but > of manufacturing demand. And that means that almost all innovation in > creation, consumption, distribution and use of text is coming from outside > the traditional publishing industry. > > >
Re: [Vo]:Innovation tends to come from outside
that is a rule that I've learn in professional training about innovation. inovators are: - foreigners in their domain (other country, culture, industry, diploma, speciality). so they understand that the things can be different from what it is in their company/industry/domain... - they gave a network of similar people with whom they can share and maintain their strange vision - they are resilient. they keep their ideas despite critics. their networks help much. they are not afraid to crash, and will crash. 2012/4/12 Jed Rothwell > Many writers such as Christensen have pointed out that innovation tends to > come from outside an industry. Containerized shipping is a classic > example. It was developed by Malcom McLean, and industry outsider. That is > why cold fusion is unlikely to be developed by mainstream energy companies. > > Innovation not only comes from people outside the mainstream, it often > comes from places physically removed from the mainstream, such as Dayton, > Ohio. In the case of cold fusion, the biggest academic project is a U. > Missouri, not MIT, CalTech, Georgia Tech or any of the other leading > technology institutions. U. Missouri is a great place. It was founded by > Thomas Jefferson. Robert Duncan is a great guy. But still, it is physically > removed from the mainstream and the Big Gun east and west coast > institutions. > > The 19th century industrial revolution was centered in England, but many > of the inventions and ideas came from Scotland. > > Anyway, here are some cynical but thought provoking ideas about this > subject -- > > http://blog.findings.com/post/20527246081/how-we-will-read-clay-shirky > > As this author puts it: "Institutions will try to preserve the problem for > which they are the solution." > > I like the quote about the PDF format being "where data goes to die." I > have often had an uneasy feeling that is true, and it bothers me since > everything at LENR-CANR is in PDF format. I try to hang on to original > sources such as .doc files and graphic images. > > QUOTES: > > Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word > “publishing” means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the > incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something > public. That’s not a *job* anymore. That’s a *button*. There’s a button > that says “publish,” and when you press it, it’s done. > > . . . > > The original promise of the e-book was not a promise to the reader, it was > a promise to the publisher: “We will design something that appears on a > screen, but it will be as inconvenient as if it were a physical object.” > This is the promise of the portable document format, where data goes to > die, as well. > > Institutions will try to preserve the problem for which they are the > solution. Now publishers are in the business not of overcoming scarcity but > of manufacturing demand. And that means that almost all innovation in > creation, consumption, distribution and use of text is coming from outside > the traditional publishing industry. > > >
