Good morning Marty:
Before I comment on your WAVX comments, may I say that the portrait of you at the site to which you referred us is an amazing likeness. (You also caused me to spend many minutes that I really should have been devoting to other things exploring the related pages - lots of fun.)
I think that your observations about the so-far-semi-mute response to the WAVX/HP/etc. announcement are exactly correct. As an experiment early this morning, I decided to try to get myself into a frame of mind in which I had no prior knowledge of the WAVE system or of WAVE's development, then reread the HP and WAVX press releases, EMBASSY Q&A's, EMBASSY site, etc. to try to get a better understanding of how the announcements would effect someone not already familiar with the evolution of this apparently revolutionary development.
I agree with you that the development, if it really gets implemented, is so far-reaching that it is easy to look at all the material and not really be able to see the forest through the trees. Although it is really impossible, once exposed, to put one's self into a totally unbiased mindset in trying to look at this material as if it were your first exposure, I think I can now appreciate why it will take some time for the message to get across - it seems just too all-encompassing and widely applicable to be true. It also needs the test of physical implementation and demonstrable success, which must necessarily be the next step. Even the E-bays, Yahoos and Amazons got their market recognition only after they were in actual operation and had successfully demonstrated their then revolutionary and now acknowledged concepts and businesses.
It will apparently take operational confirmation, as well as recognition by the chip makers and OEM's, before the rest of the world takes real notice.
For a couple of days this week I was really wondering why such publications as the Wall Street Journal did not take notice. But when you come right down to it, very little of that publication deals with new ideas and concepts, and most deals with reporting of documented developments and specific occurrences.
IMHO that we are still with those that are ahead of the trend and that will be setting the trend for the future, rather than being off on a side tangent. IMHO that, for those who stick with it, this is one of the rare opportunities for us denigrated "blue-collar philosophers", down-sized corporate extras, and unsophisticated self-directed investors to be on the same track as the futurists. But, I've been wrong many times before, so who knows.
Steve
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