What happens when the bacteria strains mutate and are able to escape and dominate in the wild, consuming forests and crops?
It only took one string of E.Coli strain 31 500 generations to mutate and be able metabolize citrate.
A little background on the delay of introducing FM:
Edwin Armstrong was the inventor of FM. He won many distinctions during his life, including the IEEE Medal of Honour, and the AIEE Edison medal.
Working for Radio Corporation of America, Armstrong invented frequency modulation radio.
RCA wasn't interested (initially because of a paper published by the inventor of single side band modulation, John Carson, stipulating that FM offered no additional benefits to AM), and resisted any changes attempted to move from AM to FM. RCA pushed the FCC to change the band of FM from the 42-50MHz range to what it is now: 88-108MHz. This rendered all of Armstrongs infrastructure obsolete in one fell swoop.
Armstrong spent a fortune (all of his fortune) to keep pushing FM because it offers superior perfomance under certain conditions: although with less range than AM, if the amplitude is above a certain level the signal to noise ratio is much better than AM.
To add insult to injury, the RCA claimed the invention of FM technology and won a patent. A lawsuit ensued, and the RCA won, leaving Armstrong unable to claim royalties for FM use in the USA (Note that after his death, his wife continued the fight and eventually won against the RCA in 1967).
The reluctance to embrace the new technology and the malicious behavior of the RCA resulted in the ruin and eventual suicide of a gifted inventor, and one of the fathers of radio and wireless technologies.
It is interesting to note the techology-stifling and patent stealing didn't start with the computer age, there have been previous battles fought.
The question is, can this be avoided in the future?
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What happens when the bacteria strains mutate and are able to escape and dominate in the wild, consuming forests and crops? It only took one string of E.Coli strain 31 500 generations to mutate and be able metabolize citrate.
A little background on the delay of introducing FM: Edwin Armstrong was the inventor of FM. He won many distinctions during his life, including the IEEE Medal of Honour, and the AIEE Edison medal. Working for Radio Corporation of America, Armstrong invented frequency modulation radio. RCA wasn't interested (initially because of a paper published by the inventor of single side band modulation, John Carson, stipulating that FM offered no additional benefits to AM), and resisted any changes attempted to move from AM to FM. RCA pushed the FCC to change the band of FM from the 42-50MHz range to what it is now: 88-108MHz. This rendered all of Armstrongs infrastructure obsolete in one fell swoop. Armstrong spent a fortune (all of his fortune) to keep pushing FM because it offers superior perfomance under certain conditions: although with less range than AM, if the amplitude is above a certain level the signal to noise ratio is much better than AM. To add insult to injury, the RCA claimed the invention of FM technology and won a patent. A lawsuit ensued, and the RCA won, leaving Armstrong unable to claim royalties for FM use in the USA (Note that after his death, his wife continued the fight and eventually won against the RCA in 1967). The reluctance to embrace the new technology and the malicious behavior of the RCA resulted in the ruin and eventual suicide of a gifted inventor, and one of the fathers of radio and wireless technologies. It is interesting to note the techology-stifling and patent stealing didn't start with the computer age, there have been previous battles fought. The question is, can this be avoided in the future?
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