This is what the world needs more of: a focus on implementing soft technologies rather than a mania to design ever more complex ones.
What the world needs now ...
Is a lot more solutions like this 4
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jscorse Posted 10:26 am
09 Aug 2007
J.S.
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randino Posted 10:38 pm
09 Aug 2007
The reason for this is that the more complicated you make something, the more profit centers you create. If the project is backed with public money, then all the better, because Congress will make sure that everyone in every important state or district gets a taste of the subcontracting.
Simplicity may sell in Africa. But in America, it is un-American and will be stamped out at the first opportunity.
Randy Cunningham
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Delay And Deny Posted 10:54 pm
09 Aug 2007
I'd like a 200 mpg car.
http://www.gm-volt.com/
John Bailo
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Delay And Deny Posted 10:56 pm
09 Aug 2007
Yeah, we can do a lot with thimbles and twine, but the real solutions are coming from high tech companies working in exotic newfangled materials like composites and nanotubes.
John Bailo
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