Calvinist Cynic That I Am...
I discounted the SEITF stuff by the morning after its initial discovery. Sometimes, third parties are a lot lazier about how they describe a company than they should be. The stuff didn't read fresh.
I mean it didn't have the latest spin on things that you see from WAVX central. In fact, it's now fairly easy to carbon test information on WAVX because the Spragues have been playing with various formulations and positionings for several years. (So, for example, if you note some "Great Stuff Network" in the batch, well, you know that's stale.) I just passed on the MOT/Sarnoff thing because I now check for Sarnoff tie-ins as a matter of course.
On a side note, in yesterday's NY Times, I read of the passing of the man credited with coming up with the phrase (and concept of) "ubiquitous computing," Mark D. Weiser:
A little quote:
"In 1988 he coined the term "ubiqutous computing" as an alternative to hulking mainframe computers in rooms of their own and then the personal desktop models that have prevailed in the first two generations of the computer era. At the time, the personal computer, which had been explored at the research center, known as PARC, during the 1970's was in its ascendancy. But, Mr. Weiser's vision was a radical departure. Computers, in his view, should disappear into all the objects that surround people in daily life in both home and office...
As unlikely as Mr. Weiser's idea seemed in the late 1980's, it came to frame a new generation of experimentation at a revitalized PARC in the 1990's...
And now his idea of ubiquitous computing has in many ways taken hold, what with so-called smart devices such as coffee pots, printers and copy machines that can display whether they are full or empty via an office network..."
Reading this was, for me, yet another wonderful reminder of the history of ideas. (Thomas Kuhn wrote a terrific book on this years ago.) Things are rejected or seen as seen as heresy in one decade. Then adopted in the next. Reminds me of a little company in Lee, Mass.
Best Regards And An Orange Juice Toast To Ubiquity,
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