Re:I've figured out what IT is...
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of course.....if it is indeed 'individual transport' there wouldn't be a need or a want for 2 people. Besides, you've been to the circus, right? Unicycles are supposed to have one person on them, but I'll be damned if they don't fit like 10 clowns on it.
Also: I don't think power is a problem, he's been developing this sterling engine right? I'm sure that whatever IT is, it uses the sterling engine.
...Which leads us to something interesting...which, coincidentally, nixes my just previous post. One of the people who saw it said "If I invented metal, then invented the first spoon, which would be the big invention, the metal or the spoon?" Which implies that it is not IT that is revolutionary so much as the core technology that runs it....sterling engine, or I guess the hover technology if that's the deal.
Re:I've figured out what IT is...
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Your idea as to the nature of IT is a good and educated guess, but it really doesn't agree with the evidence at hand. Now this scooter of yours would certainly be nice to have, but it is really in no way "revolutionary," or at least not by the standards of Jobs and Bezos. Remember, these are the revolutionaries themselves. It was described as more important than PCs and the internet, and that it would sweep over the world, changing lives and ways of thinking. Furthermore, if it were indeed this motorized scooter, there wouldn't be such a need to keep it tightly under wraps. Also, Jobs says that cities will be built around IT...whereas your invention sort of curbs, if you will, current city obstacles.
Looking at the evidence, I have only two ways of seeing IT, and both seem very, very unlikely to me, so in the end it is a mystery...
1. Instantaneous Transport. The acronym is arbitrary, but the idea of a teleporter seems to fit with the ideas. Someone made a rather long post earlier about it being a teleporter, or rather two of them. ***Now remember, just because he put it together with a wrench and screwdriver doesn't mean it is not complicated. Surely it was already assembled, and only disassembled so it could be gotten to the meeting without being seen or guessed at.*** It is really the fact that they made 2 that points at this idea. Of course it seems to me that this is completely out of our current range of innovation, so I'd like to scrap it if it didn't fit the quotes so well. I mean look at them, it rather fits.
2. Individual Transport/Independence Technology. I think IT is the category under which "Ginger" falls. Anyway, this idea is the hovercraft/board idea. We've all heard a million versions of this so I'll spare you. But run it through the article.....it fits in every respect. As for that patent form, go to www.thesmokinggun.com, they have the whole thing, it's rather interesting. Something that flies (using the sterling engine (which isn't IT, incidentally, IT is undoubtedly some kind of transportaion) I would guess) is the only thing that could really be considered THAT revolutionary.
And one other thing: I'd like to think we can dismiss with this being a hoax at this point. There is too much evidence surrounding it saying otherwise. And some of the high rollers involved certainly would have spoken out by now...I mean when did this story break? a week ago? And MSNBC must have fact checkers that could verify this to a certain extent.
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of course.....if it is indeed 'individual transport' there wouldn't be a need or a want for 2 people. Besides, you've been to the circus, right? Unicycles are supposed to have one person on them, but I'll be damned if they don't fit like 10 clowns on it.
Also: I don't think power is a problem, he's been developing this sterling engine right? I'm sure that whatever IT is, it uses the sterling engine.
...Which leads us to something interesting...which, coincidentally, nixes my just previous post. One of the people who saw it said "If I invented metal, then invented the first spoon, which would be the big invention, the metal or the spoon?" Which implies that it is not IT that is revolutionary so much as the core technology that runs it....sterling engine, or I guess the hover technology if that's the deal.
Your idea as to the nature of IT is a good and educated guess, but it really doesn't agree with the evidence at hand. Now this scooter of yours would certainly be nice to have, but it is really in no way "revolutionary," or at least not by the standards of Jobs and Bezos. Remember, these are the revolutionaries themselves. It was described as more important than PCs and the internet, and that it would sweep over the world, changing lives and ways of thinking. Furthermore, if it were indeed this motorized scooter, there wouldn't be such a need to keep it tightly under wraps. Also, Jobs says that cities will be built around IT...whereas your invention sort of curbs, if you will, current city obstacles.
Looking at the evidence, I have only two ways of seeing IT, and both seem very, very unlikely to me, so in the end it is a mystery...
1. Instantaneous Transport. The acronym is arbitrary, but the idea of a teleporter seems to fit with the ideas. Someone made a rather long post earlier about it being a teleporter, or rather two of them. ***Now remember, just because he put it together with a wrench and screwdriver doesn't mean it is not complicated. Surely it was already assembled, and only disassembled so it could be gotten to the meeting without being seen or guessed at.*** It is really the fact that they made 2 that points at this idea. Of course it seems to me that this is completely out of our current range of innovation, so I'd like to scrap it if it didn't fit the quotes so well. I mean look at them, it rather fits.
2. Individual Transport/Independence Technology. I think IT is the category under which "Ginger" falls. Anyway, this idea is the hovercraft/board idea. We've all heard a million versions of this so I'll spare you. But run it through the article.....it fits in every respect. As for that patent form, go to www.thesmokinggun.com, they have the whole thing, it's rather interesting. Something that flies (using the sterling engine (which isn't IT, incidentally, IT is undoubtedly some kind of transportaion) I would guess) is the only thing that could really be considered THAT revolutionary.
And one other thing: I'd like to think we can dismiss with this being a hoax at this point. There is too much evidence surrounding it saying otherwise. And some of the high rollers involved certainly would have spoken out by now...I mean when did this story break? a week ago? And MSNBC must have fact checkers that could verify this to a certain extent.
So stick that in your smoke and pipe it.
-BP