From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 27 12:38:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 780C437B401 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 12:38:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vhost109.his.com (vhost109.his.com [216.194.225.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D42C143F75 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 12:38:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (localhost.his.com [127.0.0.1]) by vhost109.his.com (8.12.6p2/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h6RJcQtU077760; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 15:38:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200307271927.h6RJRf2I036692@bitblocks.com> References: <200307271927.h6RJRf2I036692@bitblocks.com> Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 21:37:43 +0200 To: Bakul Shah From: Brad Knowles Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" cc: chat@freebsd.org cc: Bill Moran Subject: Re: Nonsense discussion: dreaming up new technology X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:38:39 -0000 At 12:27 PM -0700 2003/07/27, Bakul Shah wrote: > Many of these people are focussing on display applications so > it'll be a while before we get to what Neal Stephenson talks > about in "The Diamond Age" -- where a computer is sandwiched > between display surfaces. Already underway. IIRC, Sharp recently printed some electronic circuits for a simple CPU on top of an LCD. >> So. Am I the first to imagine such a thing? How close is the >> technology to actually doing it? What does everyone think about it? > > Not the first. But don't let that bother you! Keep at it! > Think of *where* you would use it if it were available. Keep > an inventor's log book and have it notarized periodically. Agreed. This can be way-cool stuff, and inventions like this are one of the only ways we geek-types can hope to be able to make serious money. It's not like we can ever get paid like doctors or lawyers, so we have to be inventors in a company and get rich on the IPO. -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)