Friday, March 4, 2011

Innovator's Dilemma - Think out of the ... (uh) ... USB

Now this is creative innovation! Push those boundaries into the great-beyond! (If the Star-ship Enterprise can utilize a transporter in the 1960's, then why not this creative app for the USB port of a PC?)

Visit their site to see a demo (have your Rosetta Stone software handy!) http://www.1jour1vin.com/fr/landingpages/usbwine

Think about how the sophistication of transmitting has evolved in the few short decades since 1's and 0's were discovered and the world began its rapid digital transformation. Along with more creative and aggressive use of the bandwidth spectrum and the seemingly endless trend to pack more processing power from tinier and tinier 'engines', I can envision a future when breakthroughs are made with transmitting more that sound and data.

From a layman's perspective, does that mean that once discoveries are made - with how to map digital representations of physical 'stuff' (animate and/or inanimate) - then humanity is in a position to embark upon the next frontier of 'transport'? I know I am getting a little sci-fi here, but isn't that one of the ways discoveries are made ... by imagining and envisioning (a theory) then going out and trying to figure out how to connect the dots (as opposed to accidental discovery)? Break though this barrier and you'll be Back To The Future with Doc, traveling across the stars.

Think about the progress recently with virtual reality technology. Think about the imagination reflected in The Matrix (brain-updates via a direct man-machine interface and download). From Star Trek, to The Fly to countless other sci-fi movies ... it's fun and instructive to reflect on the imagination of yesteryear in venues like Flash Gordon, Dick Tracy and others ... and now living - just a few decades later - with some of those once 'impossible' concepts as part of our daily routines.

Now matter what your background or IQ, its fun to imagine and figure out ways to be a part of influencing innovation!

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