flefever at ix.netcom.com(F. Frank LeFever) wrote:
>One often hears this basic argument (especially in the internet
>newsgroups): Some great ideas were initially rejected. This idea is
>rejected. Therefore this is a great idea.
One does not have to approve or disapprove. These are Darwin Days: what
works survives, what does not work, does not. Margaret Thatcher spoke of
the 'oxygen of publicity', and it is clear that duff ideas can be kept
alive by avid support and also avid criticism. Things are best left to find
their own level, perhaps, and what works - what delivers new capabilities,
options which did not previously exist - will swim to its own level if it
engages with those likely to make use of this potential. If the option is
disconnected or untimely - the microwave oven, the first launch of fast
food chains, the biro - then it will be a good idea whose time has not
come. If it does not work - Power Persil, Windows 1 - then the level that
it finds will be an intimate or worms.
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Oliver Sparrow
