On 14/01/2014 8:43 AM, Peter L Borst wrote:


> While as Jerry says, good ideas may not be recognized if they come 
> from unconventional sources, there is also no shortage of bad ideas 
> being generated by freelancers. Thinking of quasi-scientists like 
> Rudolf Steiner (Biodynamic Agriculture), Willhelm Reich (Orgone 
> Energy), L. Ron Hubbard (Scientology), to name a few. The better ones 
> found their home in creative fiction (H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, 
> Phillip K. Dick).


Sometimes the idea or articles usefulness is obvious.  The benefit of 
Langstroth's hive must have been almost immediate.  Nearly all the 
ancillary equipment we now take for granted appeared in a few years.  
Aeroplanes and motor cars were at first just a novelty for rich people. 
It was not obvious that this machine I am using now, known as a PC would 
be useful in every (well almost every) home.  In fact the early ones 
were not.  Of course the prediction, that it, the computer, would mean 
we all worked half a day and half a week. The worry was how would we 
spend all the new leisure time.   A prediction yet to come true.

Geoff Manning

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