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Living on Internet Time... Like Thomas Edison Did

Posted by chrisd on from the love-the-automatic-hammer dept.

securitas writes: "If you think that dotcommers are the first people to live on Internet time, then take a trip to the 19th century (NYT Story, here's a Yahoo link). Thomas Edison had 10,000 researchers and scientists working at his Menlo Park labs, who slept on their desks, and had the same problems pleasing the investment community as today's tech companies. The result? Over 1000 patents and many inventions that we take for granted today."

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  1. What do we have today? by AntiPasto · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Headaches, and the careers of 1000's that we take for granted.

  2. Front page display of the story by user32.ExitWindowsEx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Italics are busted again.

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  3. Re:MODERATORS, ARE YOU ON CRACK? by bryan1945 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This would actually make me come back!

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  4. Richard Feynman by Marcus+Brody · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I remeber an anecdote about Richard Feynan. He decided that there just werent enough hours in the day (which is true). So he shifted to a 30 hour day, still sleeping 6 or whatever hours in each of his "days". He continued for some time, gradually coming in and out of phase with the work patterns of his colleagues.

    And look how brilliant a man he was. Not that his wierd working days was a contributing factor to his greatness, but it was most probably a result of it.