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A comment on The Ghost of Invention: A Visit to Bell Labs.
> in 1995, “Nobody in Bell Labs used the Internet
:(( I did.
>umbrella with a GSM modem that glows blue when it knows you’ll be needing it
its called an app, on your phone
>Medicine bottles that record the number of times they’ve been opened
already patented several times over and on the market for years
http://www.epill.com/timecap.html
I was expecting place like that to be working on big stuff. Quantum teleportation, beam forming, not fart apps and magic umbrellas :(
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> in 1995, “Nobody in Bell Labs used the Internet
:(( I did.
>umbrella with a GSM modem that glows blue when it knows you’ll be needing it
its called an app, on your phone
>Medicine bottles that record the number of times they’ve been opened
already patented several times over and on the market for years
http://www.epill.com/timecap.html
I was expecting place like that to be working on big stuff. Quantum teleportation, beam forming, not fart apps and magic umbrellas :(