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A comment on At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared.

Re:At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared by psyc on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:12PM (#14404853)
The interesting issue to me isn't the particulars of this one case. It's that when you invent something very novel, nobody cares because they can't anchor it in the scheme of things they already care about. Effectively, they can't "see" what you've done. Communicating the value of your invention can be very challenging.
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Re:At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared by DaggerDagger on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:15PM (#14404886)
That's basically the Inventor's Curse summed up as well as could ever be.

"The inventor is always cursed to invent something that is just as difficult to explain as it is to invent."

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Re:At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared by loader on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @05:08PM (#14405371)
This is the value behind MAYA "Most Advanced Yet Acceptable" pioneered by Raymond Loewy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Loewy
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