CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Phonograph, Darpa, Exponential Growth
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Cs 100 - a: lecture: monday, october 23rd: Invention: a completely new technology, very rare. Innovation: new ways to make a previous technology useful. The work of designers, marketers, or innovative users adapting this technology into their lives. Diffusion of technologies: led lights on a scrolling belt buckle. Explaining how to get to the next place. Aid to business men to dictate letters to their secretaries. Mix of the social, public, and corporate. The best design does not always win, in fact, it loses more often than it wins. Quality, usefulness and whether something spreads widely is not highly correlated. Could talk into the phone and no one could hear what you were saying. Bell had monopoly on the phone, they had a patent. So the hushaphone company attachment was not used, bell ended up suing them. People make entire lives making predictions about the future, not easy to do. Only of predictions come true every 50 years (barlow)
