Comments on: Tell the White House What Our Next Tech Challenge Should Be http://smarterware.org/5746/tell-the-white-house-what-our-next-tech-challenge-should-be A blog about software Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:02:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Luther http://smarterware.org/5746/tell-the-white-house-what-our-next-tech-challenge-should-be#comment-2108 Luther Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:43:19 +0000 http://smarterware.org/?p=5746#comment-2108 "Here are some examples President Obama listed." What prosaic stuff. Grist for the 1 percenters that Thomas Edison referred to rather disparagingly. Presidents aren't too much on inventing, I guess. Abraham Lincoln got a patent--6,469, to A. Lincoln, Method of Buoying Vessels. Inventing is best left to the inventors. What would help is getting rid of "hired to invent" so that employed R&D people had an incentive to invent instead of just doing lackadaisical corporate research at a snail's pace. “Here are some examples President Obama listed.”

What prosaic stuff. Grist for the 1 percenters that Thomas Edison referred to rather disparagingly. Presidents aren’t too much on inventing, I guess. Abraham Lincoln got a patent–6,469, to A. Lincoln, Method of Buoying Vessels. Inventing is best left to the inventors. What would help is getting rid of “hired to invent” so that employed R&D people had an incentive to invent instead of just doing lackadaisical corporate research at a snail’s pace.

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