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The Joy of Wire

The Joy of Wire. Steve Lampen Multimedia Technology Manager Product Line Manager – Entertainment Products Belden. Introduction. The Bhagavad-Gita A Story If you do know, who to see ?. Lack of Vision. The year is 1876 Internal Western Union memo:

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The Joy of Wire

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  1. The Joy of Wire Steve Lampen Multimedia Technology Manager Product Line Manager – Entertainment Products Belden

  2. Introduction The Bhagavad-Gita A Story If you do know, who to see?

  3. Lack of Vision The year is 1876 Internal Western Union memo: “ The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.”

  4. Lack of Vision The year is 1878 Talk to Parliament by head of the Royal Mail: “The Americans have need of the telephone because of the great distances between cities. We British, however, have plenty of messenger boys.”

  5. Lack of Vision The year is 1916 Federal Radio Commission, on shutting down Lee DeForest’s radio station, which was playing music. “There is no room in the ether for entertainment.” But DeForest said:"Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances."

  6. Lack of Vision The year is 1920 Reply to David Sarnoff trying to sell the idea of radio: “The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?”

  7. Lack of Vision The year is 1943 Thomas P. Watson, Sr. Chairman of IBM: “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” Thomas P. Watson, Jr. "I don't know what use any one could find for a machine that would make copies of documents. It certainly couldn't be a feasible business by itself." … forcing Chester Carlson to found Xerox.

  8. Lack of Vision The year is 1949 Popular Mechanics: “Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons!“

  9. Lack of Vision The year is 1977... Ken Olson President, Chairman and Founder of Digital Equipment Corp. “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”

  10. Lack of Vision The Year is 1980… Dr. Joseph Flaherty, Senior Vice President of Technology, CBS, the “father of HDTV” “The day we have digital TV’s is the same day we’ll have an anti-gravity machine.”

  11. Lack of Vision The year is 2010… What are you saying is silly? What are you saying is impossible? What about your own company? The Bible says (Proverbs 28:19): “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” The Point is…ask the Question -and don’t forget!

  12. Lack of Vision

  13. The Year is 1518 Aztec Basketball The Ball was made of… Invented in 1870 by…. 1996, Michael Tarkanian Where would we be?

  14. The Year is 1902 Kellogg & Co. Silk-covered wire Shoelaces His name was….

  15. The Year is 1928 Waldo L. Semon Goodrich EPDM Throw-away petroleum Shower curtains Ohio 1999

  16. The Year is 1937 E.W. Fawcett & R.O. Gibson Refrigeration Many ethylenes Crashed Planes Your Veggie Bag

  17. Don’t Forget “My List of Things to Do”

  18. What is Coming? • Room-temperature superconductors. • Low resistance carbon nanotubes. • 20,000 years of progress this century. • Ray Kurzweil

  19. What is Coming? • Nanobots • Cure disease • Make you smarter • Talk about resolution! • How long do you want to live? • Talk about a population explosion! • More machine than human… • Ray Kurzweil

  20. Where Have We Been?

  21. That Missing Mass… E

  22. That Missing Mass… E = m

  23. That Missing Mass… E = m c2

  24. Habits "Habits are like a cable. We weave a strand of it everyday and soon itcannot be broken." Horace Mann 1796-1859, educator.

  25. Possibilities “When you exhaust all possibilities, remember this: You haven’t.” Thomas Edison

  26. Machines of the Future • Will design themselves • Can you build a cellphone? • Will fix themselves • A self-repairing city • See Arthur C. Clarke “The City and the Stars” • We will not understand them • That’s OK, we just have to know how to use them • In 2006, the Internet passed the complexity of a human brain. • Ray Kurzweil (again)

  27. What is Coming? • The Internet will talk to us • “The Day the Machine Laughed” • What will it sound like? • Who will talk to it? Ask questions? • “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” • “Are we alone in the Universe?” • “Is this the way Evolution proceeds?”

  28. Will You say “Yes”? • Putting data into your laptop • How slow is that? • Computers transfer all that in a nanosecond. • So let’s put a chip in your head… • Think into your laptop • A hundred times faster • And, while we’re at it… • Fix your diseases • Make you smarter

  29. Where Do we Stop? • Ray Kurzweil (again) • By the end of this century… • More machine than man • Images of “The Borg” • Immortality • The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth • The rest of us will have to leave • “No Immortals Allowed” • Living in Space • One tough and dangerous life

  30. Make the World “With our thoughts, we make the world.” TheBuddha.

  31. Call My Bluff! shlampen@aol.com steve.lampen@belden.com www.belden.com

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