The results of a
straight up decisive mind on which variety of thoughts roams about and emanate
to the surface as a dream coming to pass are based on the mind or concept of one
thought. We think about a particular interesting thought and tend to achieve
what’s on our mind and finally work towards that thought and eventually becomes
real. “To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve”…… James Allen, we are
what we are due to the effective thoughts on our mind. Our concepts of various
fields such as technology, agriculture, productivity, medicine, and politics
and so on were nursed by those who came before us. Thus, we realize the very ideas
of those in the time past.
Technologies have
evolved overtime with so much still to be birth and explore. The likes of douglas engelbart who was an engineer
and inventor, years back produced the computer
mouse which of course is widely used around the world.
However, would it be
that had he not thought about the idea of Human computer interaction? We wouldn’t
have come in contact with the computer mouse? A thought was formed and it gives
birth to the idea.
Engelbart wanted to use technology to augment
human intellect. He saw technology, especially computers, as the answers to the
problem of dealing with the ever more complex modern world and has dedicated
his life to the pursuit of developing technology to augment human intellect. "By
'augmenting human intellect' we mean increasing the capability of a man to
approach a complex problem situation, to gain comprehension to suit his
particular needs, and to derive solutions to problems. Increased capability in
this respect is taken to mean a mixture of the following: more-rapid
comprehension, better comprehension, the possibility of gaining a useful degree
of comprehension in a situation that previously was too complex, speedier
solutions, better solutions, and the possibility of finding solutions to
problems that before seemed insoluble. And by "complex situations" we
include the professional problems of diplomats, executives, social scientists,
life scientists, physical scientists, attorneys, designers—whether the problem
situation exists for twenty minutes or twenty years. We do not speak of
isolated clever tricks that help in particular situations. We refer to a way of
life in an integrated domain where hunches, cut-and-try, intangibles, and the
human "feel for a situation" usefully co-exist with powerful
concepts, streamlined terminology and notation, sophisticated methods, and high-powered
electronic aids." Engelbart, Augmenting Human Intellect: Introduction.
“I made a decision to
maximize my contribution to mankind. But I would do? There were so many
complicated problems in the world. Things were changing at such a large scale. I
came to realize that we needed new levels of understanding and abilities to
work collectively to solve complex problems” Engelbart
Norman Abramson, also
an engineer and computer scientist with whom this very era has experience
change as a result of ideas born to enhance the future. The use of wireless computer
communication cannot be overemphasized. “It was becoming apparent that the
existing telephone network architecture was not well suited to the rapidly
emerging data networking needs of the 1970s. indeed, it would have been
surprising had such a network architecture, shaped by the requirements of voice
communications at the end of the 19th century, been compatible with
the emerging requirements of data communication networks at the end of the 20th
century”- Norman Abramson
“It has always been the
case from the very beginning that more people have location independent jobs
than managers who will let them do it. So we’re always well below the point
where everyone who can do [telework] does”-Jack Nillies
Today we are on the web
with our mobile devices but an idea gave birth to the use of cell phone. Marty
Cooper “AKA father of cell phones” conceived the idea and wireless cell phones
are widely used round the globe. “I think that wireless has the opportunity to
solve a whole bunch of problems, including, I believe world poverty. So the two
are areas that I talk a lot about and really believe are important are the
wireless impact on medical technology and on social networking. Both of those
two things are going to be revolutionary”-Marty Cooper.
How we measure progress
is a state of the mind, and the essence of our thoughts day in and day out. “The
way we measure intelligence today is as if I have a hundred pounds of
intelligence and I get from you 99 pounds, you’re considered bright right? My
feeling of what “bright” is or what genius is if I give you a hundred pounds of
intelligence, you give me back 120. That means you take what you’ve taken and
gone beyond that- you’ve learned other things, correlated the pieces, and put
it together and added something to it. That’s genius.” Gerald Lawson
Nathaniel Borenstein an
American computer scientist whose aspire to achieve was enormous. He is one of
the original designers of the MIME protocol for formatting multimedia Internet electronic
mail and sent the first e-mail attachment ….“Spam is bad. The amazing degree of
unanimity that greets such a simple declaration is, paradoxically, the biggest
impediment to progress in antispam standards.”
Robert Metcalf “Technological
innovation is the source of all progress. So you should be in the technological
innovation business, at the core of which is science and engineering it’s the
highest calling to be in technological innovation. Democracy, freedom,
prosperity, they all stem from technological innovation.”
Tim Berners-lee “A very
early and important point of the web is that there’s no line where you say
these things belong on the web and there things don’t. The universality of it
from the word go was very important”.
Dr Fujio Masuoko “Simply
put, I wanted to make a chip that could one day replace all other memory
technologies on the market.”
Ken Thompson “I know, on
a deep sense, every line of code I ever wrote. I’d write a program during the
day, and at night I’d sit there and walk through it line by line and find bugs I’d
go back day and sure enough it would be wrong”
It is important that we
do not leave this earth with a thought of not impacting positively in ways we
can and are meant to achieve.
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