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This is not a new problem when people look at technology all day. You are basically saying that you have seen so many birds that there can never be a black swan
by crmrc114 6y ago
This is not a new problem when people look at technology all day. You are basically saying that you have seen so many birds that there can never be a black swan. Not without complex xy and z factors. This is a perspective problem that can tie you down into some interesting thoughts such as "There is nothing else to be invented new." -or- "The innovation will happen here, in this little corner, where I and others say it will"
An actress basically invented FHSS, and no one understood the applications it would have to future technology until much later on. Just because you cannot think of something new does not mean that no one else can- if you are working in startup funding you need to find the true purple cow. Not the spraypainted one, or the one that only lives for two weeks and has to sustain itself on gold.
- madhadron 6y ago> An actress basically invented FHSS Mind you, said actress, Hedy Lamarr, was a fairly brilliant, self taught electrical engineer.
- crmrc114 6y agoI just wanted people to have to google it and learn if they did not know, and here you are ruining that game for me! Anyhow nice film on this for anyone interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombshell:_The_Hedy_Lamarr_Story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombshell:_The_Hedy_Lamarr_Sto...
- madhadron 6y agoSorry to ruin your fun.
- dnautics 6y ago> and no one understood the applications it would have to future technology until much later on Huh? FHSS was a specific wartime effort with a wartime goal that, aside from that its modern application is mostly civilian, is not terribly distant from its intended use case.
- crmrc114 6y agoThere is actually a whole backstory to people ignoring the idea because she was a woman etc. The navy initially turned down the technology when she presented it. More the the main point I made above- people did not know what they were looking at because they could not think of how important it would be or how it could evolve.
- dnautics 6y agoI thought they turned it down because the permittivity of radio through the seawater dielectric made it impractical.
- deepnotderp 6y agoYou're correct, and at the frequencies at which permittivity is reasonable, FHSS is much less effective. And Hedy Lamarr was far from the first person to come up with FHSS for communications.