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>I don’t believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee The Internet would seem to be an obvious counter-example to this claim.
by redthrowaway 15y ago
>I don’t believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee
The Internet would seem to be an obvious counter-example to this claim.
- moonchrome 15y ago"The Internet" ? What definition of Internet allows it to be considered a single revolutionary entity that was invented, and by a committee no less.
- redthrowaway 15y agoARPANET?
- moonchrome 15y agoAFAIK ARPANET started as a project to implement existing ideas about networking.
- redthrowaway 15y agoIt was the first packet-switching network, and thus an invention. It also directly grew into the Internet (the original ARPANET was the first network on the Internet), hence my response. And, it was designed by committee. So as far as my original comment goes, I still think the Internet is a pretty good counter-example to Woz's claim.
- tomhoward 15y agoPacket-switching was the invention; ARPANET the implementation. Implementations by committees/teams/groups are commonplace. For you to call it a good counter-example, you need to show that packet-switching was invented by a committee.
- redthrowaway 15y agoI don't think separating the two is reasonable. Was the invention of the internal combustion engine separate from its first construction? Was the invention of the atom bomb separate from the construction and testing of The Gadget? Conception and implementation are, in my mind, both necessary for invention.
- tomhoward 15y agoYou can define things however you want but you're talking about something very different to what Woz is talking about.
- grogs 15y agoTrue. However, the Internet as we know it today would not exist is committees controlled it. OSI 7 Layer vs TCP/IP Model. W3C Recommendations. There are many [significantly-]ignored committee creations.
- jwallaceparker 15y agoAnd every Lennon/McCartney song.
- zerostar07 15y agoThe internet was novel, but not revolutionary until the WWW came along. The browser and hypertext brought the revolution of universally-available content.