Dear Kingsley,
You wrote
Show me an innovator and
I'll unravel a person that's had to solve a really frustrating personal problem
that became a product. The much celebrated Steve Jobs is a prominent example,
and of course there are many others :-)
Nicely exemplified. Other examples are
the classically celebrated inventors such as Thomas Edison (who actually just
funded developments to reach goals he set for the actual problem solving
engineers he hired), Nicolai Tesla (one of his engineers), Alex Graham Bell
(who built on the shoulders of EM theorists), and Henry Ford (who solved the practical
problems of economical construction of cars). They were all individuals, who
organized other individuals and accepted the others’ contributions as
their own. Work for hire laws distort whose intellectual contributions were
actually recognized and rewarded financially.
-Rich
Sincerely,
Rich Cooper
EnglishLogicKernel.com
Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com
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9:49 AM
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Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Self Interest Ontology
On 4/7/12 12:20 PM, Rich
Cooper wrote:
The point of the article, as I see it, is
that individuals following self interest are the originators of knowledge,
sharers of knowledge, and the source of social progress. Grouping people
into political units (such as religious movements, democracies, socialist
states, dictatorships, pick your favorite or most reviled instance) is what
turns the groups ultimately toward the dark side.
Great point!
Some use the moniker 'Game Theory' for what your excerpt above.
Show me an innovator and I'll unravel a person that's had to solve a really
frustrating personal problem that became a product. The much celebrated Steve
Jobs is a prominent example, and of course there are a many others :-)
My passion for data access was the product of frustrations I had eons ago,
while working as an accountant. I couldn't understand why Lotus 123 and other
productivity tools didn't have seamless hooks into back-end relational
databases :-)
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