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Schoolwork didn’t seem to be in anyone’s mind last Saturday. Kimble M. McCraw, a second year student at Harvard Business School and a member of the committee that brought FIRST to Boston five years ago, said, “Dean Kamen [founder and inventor of the Segway] always calls it the ‘Superbowl of Smarts.’ This is kind of like high school football for the math and science people of the world.” As pop music blasted and giant screens glowed, the crowd chanted and practiced...
...script, which this non-Luc Godard wrote with Robert Mark Kamen, quickly sketches Bryan as your standard-issue CIA superman with a pathetic flaw. He calls himself a "preventer." ("What do you prevent?" "Bad things from happening.") And like most other action heroes, he's an all-or-nothing-at-all fellow. An indifferent husband to Lenore (Famke Janssen, this time looking less than her usual obscenely fabulous), who's remarried and can't stand him, Bryan is trying to redeem himself as a family man by paying extra attention to his daughter...
...course, if the early predictions of Segway's success had been borne out, we would have a major crisis on our hands. When the machine was unveiled roughly five years ago, Dean Kamen, its official inventor, swore that the world?s car-weary city slickers would snap them up to travel distances too short to drive and too long to walk. As cities around the world move to push bulky, polluting cars out of their congested downtowns, he predicted, Segways would become the urban transporters of choice. He wasn?t alone in his enthusiasm. Such renowned investors and entrepreneurs...
...Dean Kamen could make his Segway the transporter of this century simply by sprinkling a few on college campuses across the country. Our young people would acquire another addiction, along with their iPods and notebook computers. Once indoctrinated, they would spread the seeds after graduation. DAVID P. BOGARDUS Portland...
...When Kamen unveiled Segway in December 2001, he told TIME that as cities get more and more crowded, they will increasingly ban cars from their congested downtown districts. Segways, he predicted, would ease that transition and prove so wildly popular that they would quickly fill the pavements of congested cities. None of that seems to be likely to happen any time soon. Here's what he had to say about his previous predictions and how he regards the ups and downs of invention...