I’m here to build a network of minds—makers, dreamers, engineers, and visionaries.

We have the tools to solve the world’s most pressing problems.
What we lack is collaboration, shared purpose, and the right system.

That’s why I started working on WIN: the Worldwide Innovation Network.
It’s not a company. It’s a movement.

Curious? Let’s talk.

#OTD in 1904.

Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio program, a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, from Brant Rock, Massachusetts. By 1899 he was able to send radiotelegraph messages between Pittsburgh and Allegheny City (now an area of Pittsburgh), using a receiver of his own design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Fessenden

Good fortune has always followed me around. I'm reminded of it tonight. I'm working on a design that involves a thermistor. Modern thermistors are marvels of accuracy and repeatability. Wonderful things.

So, in the 1960s I lived in the Hillcrest area of West Los Angeles. We also had a beach house in Venice Beach. Our next door neighbor was the Link family, as in the child actor Michael Link. Michael's father was a chemist and retiring. He gave his entire personal laboratory to me, which we transported to the basement of our house in West LA and I added chemistry to my studies. Tremendous fun, very educational, even though I didn't become a chemist. Fortunately, he chose someone responsible because, while I was a crazy youthful experimentalist, I wasn't crazy enough to kill myself. The lab included lots of supplies and plenty of very dangerous reagents. Like I said, fun. This was not a child's toy or chemistry set and I was determined to learn how to use it properly. I mainly focused on chemical assaying. As in you give me a rock and I'll tell you what it's made of.

At the same time, one of my parent's many friends was Dr. Samuel Ruben. He visited Los Angeles from time to time. He and I would hang out and discuss chemistry. When he wasn't around, he was at his lab in New Rochelle, NY and we corresponded by written letters. He was my chemistry mentor. At that age and education level, I was not yet qualified to understand all that he had done. As time went on, I learned more about who had been teaching me.

Which brings us back to the thermistor. Dr. Ruben was an expert in electrochemistry. He held around 200 patents including the invention of the modern thermistor. He also invented the dry electrolytic capacitor, the modern alkaline battery, the mercury battery, the tantalum capacitor... on and on. Ruben co-founded with Mallory the Duracell company.

So I'm getting a kick out of closing the loop and holding a thermistor in my hand tonight.

Take a look at Earl Bakken's workshop.

"The Halloween 1957 power outage, caused by an explosion at the Black Dog power plant just south of Minneapolis, lasted for three hours and took the life of a young patient who was on an AC-powered pacemaker, said Dr. Robert Kowal, vice president of Medtronic’s cardiac pacing therapies.

"The pediatric patient’s surgeon, the now-famed Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, turned to Medtronic founder Earl Bakken for help…"
https://www.twincities.com/2024/10/30/medtronic-first-portable-pacemaker-halloween-1957-blackout/

#FeatureAlert: #Inventors are individuals who introduce new ideas, methods, or products. They are the driving force behind progress and development. #Inventions are the tangible results of their creativity and ingenuity.

Here are some influential innovators and their inventions.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/gk

Daily Inspiration: "Be the person that sees the opportunities that others cannot see!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

It's 1982.

And instead of naming a "Person of the Year," Time Magazine names "The Machine of the Year." It's a nod to the potentially revolutionary impact that personal computer technology might have on our future.

And it was right about that time that I committed myself fully to taking part, determined to build a career in this fascinating new world of technology. Within a year, I was subsumed into the online world, discovering via a modem what happens when global connectivity changes forever. I knew something big was happening, and wanted to be a part of it.

I could see something that others would not yet see for a decade or more.

Do you find yourself in that situation? Seeing trends that others can't see, a future to chase that others dare not chase, a new reality that has yet to move beyond the inconceivable for most other people?

Seeing unique opportunities for tomorrow means becoming a futurist for yourself, your purveyor of a different tomorrow, a unique individual who has a lens that distorts today's reality into something different the next day. It means doubling down on your belief in the opportunities that might unfold tomorrow, rather than chasing those that might exist only within today's limited reality.

Study any great invention, and you discover the people who see things differently - and who were dismissed at the time for the errors in their vision.

#Opportunities #Vision #Innovation #Future #Uniqueness #Inspiration #Inventors #Trends #Creativity #Leadership

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2024/09/daily-inspiration-being-unique-be-the-person-that-sees-the-opportunities-that-others-cannot-see/

I just had an interesting thought about the current #AI #hype – or rather every #tech hype for that matter:

If you wanted to catch the essence of the relationship between the #inventors of the fundamental #technology, the developers of the hyped systems and the general public, in a fictional, story of allegory, then a good example would be the movie "The Prestige":

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#inventors #writers #ScienceFiction #scifi It's the writer and inventor Hugo Gernsback's 140th birth anniversary https://english.netmassimo.com/2014/08/16/hugo-gernsback-was-born-130-years-ago/

"So, why are we giving #Gutenberg all the credit for inventing #printing? Because Gutenberg served the same role for printing as James Watt did for the steam engine. Neither of the men were the original #inventors of the concept, but they made improvements so radical that they made the technology transformational."

https://erikexamines.substack.com/p/why-was-western-printing-superior

Having just posted about George Braith, player of simultaneous saxaphones, I've been reading about him. Brilliantly, he found a way of conjoining two instruments into a Braithophone. Seriously. You can buy one for $7k including half a dozen skype lessons from the 83yo Braith himself. Fantastic.

A new episode has been published on @ITSPmagazine

Show: The Mentor Project Podcast With Dr. Susan Birne-Stone And @Marcociappelli

Episode: Pulling Strings of Imagination: The Art of Puppetry, and the Power of Mentorship & Storytelling

Guest: Marilyn Price

Podcast format: Video & Audio

Enjoy!

https://www.itspmagazine.com/the-mentor-project-podcast

A new episode has been published on @ITSPmagazine

Show: The Mentor Project Podcast With Dr. Susan Birne-Stone And @Marcociappelli

Episode: Unleashing the Power of Innovation: Inside the Mentor Project's Innovation Lab

Guests: Lily Osman, Bill Cheswick, and Bob Cousins

Podcast format: Video & Audio

Enjoy!

https://www.itspmagazine.com/the-mentor-project-podcast

The America Invents Act (ACA) of 2011 switched the U.S. patent system from a first to invent to a first inventor to file system.

One result of the fine print has been that predatory corporations have filed multiple post-grant oppositions against startup companies for the purpose of inflicting financial pain on inventors & through this practice, have extracted patent licensing and purchase agreements on favorable terms from them.

#Inventors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leahy%E2%80%93Smith_America_Invents_Act

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Patent_cover.jpg

Tatu Ylönen - Linux using inventor of SSH (or openSHH) changed the IT-world.

Mr. Ylönen solved the password sniffing trouble of internet to start with.

Tatu Ylönen (Lic.Sc.) is another Finnish inventor, next to the likes of Jarkko Oikarinen (IRC), Linus Torvalds (Linux), Matti Makkonen (SMS), Monty Widenius (MariaDB, MySQL), etc.

Highly energetic appearance ==> https://www.bitchute.com/video/9p9ms3w7VHyc/
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#Tatu #Ylonen #SSH #openSHH #Linux #Finland #Suomi #inventors #WHD #Global #IT #cryptography #encryption