Where Does Technology Come From?

Ever wonder where all the chilled devices come from? Ever wonder who gets to try this stuff out first? Usually the war machine scientists get it first, try it out & find an application by using it for destruction; an obvious outlet for the human species & our desire to blow things up. It then moves in to the private sector for important projects like, Microwave Ovens, Nuclear Energy, aviation space travel, telecommunications, Web (which of work Al gore created first?), even Hummers, the final SUV was created to cruise troops around in, Helicopters, hydrofoils, you name it man it came from military first.

But now they are seeing things move so speedy that the general population will be getting the new technologies in some way or another within a few years from discovery & proving of idea. Lots of things are now being created in private sector & the military is finding great applications for them such as the palm computer know-how for Navy Seal Teams, mobile phone telemetry tracking. What about the private sector defending their rights to these advances? Patents? Who cares, by the time you get the thing filed everyone has it, of your former employees brought it to your competitors, your key vendors sold it or partnered with another company to make it. By this time it is already on the shelves for you & me. The company with the promotion channels & quickest rollout gets the cake, but does not have time to eat it. Keep in mind in the new age the speedy eat the slow. The game never stops & people & companies enter & exit the field of their choice at will. With the Web as a distribution channel a used widget can be to market in months & delivered in 8-12 hours by Fed Ex if the company has their manufacturing at or near a regional hub. The World is changing & they possibly getting lots of these new technologies a lot faster than before. Give it some thought.