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No More Next Big Thing?
CthuluOverlord writes "CNET News.com is reporting that Nicholas Donofrio, Big Blue's executive vice president of innovation and technology, made a declaration on Tuesday in an interview with ZDNet Asia. 'The fact is that innovation was a little different in the 20th century. It's not easy (now) to come up with greater and different things. If you're looking for the next big thing, stop looking. There's no such thing as the next big thing.'" Donofrio goes on to explain that he sees innovation as being services or social changes nowadays, rather than simply a better moustrap. What's the verdict? Is tech innovation dead?
Let just wait till macworld 2007 shall we? ;p
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We haven't even invented faster than light travel, time travel, teleportation or cloaking devices.
We haven't even invented a self repleneshing beer can.
The Internet is full. Go Away!!!
"Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value."
-- Benjamin Jowett (1817-93), British theologian.
Especially ironic, if you compare its track record to that of most theological studies...
You're special forces then? That's great! I just love your olympics!
and not ONE proclaiming that they have the "next big thing".... in their PANTS!
C'mon people, you can do better than this.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
As one of my college instructor told me, the next the big thing has already been around for at least ten years before anyone bother to take notice.
So... the Macarena could be the Next Big Thing?// This is not a sig.
Speak for yourself. Puny Human.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Actually Mattel makes the hover board from BttF2, they have a warehouse full of them ready for distribution. They were suppose to go to market shortly after the movie opened, in what would have been probably the best movie/product tie-in ever. But like all really good toys, parents groups and the moral right got the distribution of them banned before Mattel was able to go to market with them. Actually this is one of the incidents that started the "think of the children" mantra they love to spew when they are afraid of something.
Apparently you didn't get the memo: Justin Simoni is the next big thing.
I predict that nanotechnology will be very small.