Ever wonder where all amazing gadgets come from? Ever wonder who try out these gadgets first? Usually those that try it first risk everything from their investment and having the things blow up in front of their faces. The weird fact of the story is that most of the gadgets originate from a destructive application. Consider one of the first computers called, the ENIAC whose sole purpose was for calculating artillery-firing under varied conditions for target accuracy. Now technology is a door to door necessity and has moved into the private sector for important projects like, Microwave Ovens, Nuclear Energy, aviation space travel, telecommunications, Internet, even designing of state of art vehicles. Who can believe this that all this technology you see today came from military background.
But now we are seeing things move so fast that the general population will be getting the new technologies in some way or another within a few years from discovery and proving of concept. Many things are now being created in private sector and the military is finding great applications for them such as the palm computer technology for Navy Seal Teams, cell phone telemetry tracking.
The company with the marketing channels and fastest roll out gets the cake, but does not have time to eat it. Remember in the new age the fast eat the slow. The game never stops and people and companies enter and exit the field of their choice at will. With the Internet as a distribution channel a new widget can be to market in months and delivered in 8-12 hours by FedEx if the company has their manufacturing at or near a regional hub. The World is changing and we maybe getting many of these new technologies a lot faster than before. Think about it.
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