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...quiet Sunday morning in Silicon Valley, I am standing atop a machine code-named Ginger--a machine that may be the most eagerly awaited and wildly, if inadvertently, hyped high-tech product since the Apple Macintosh. Fifty feet away, Ginger's diminutive inventor, Dean Kamen, is offering instruction on how to use it, which in this case means waving his hands and barking out orders...
...answer that question, we need to look to the history of invention and to the notoriously difficult study of the diffusion of innovations. Often lost in the study of such things is the fact that for every Model T, Apple Macintosh or DVD, there are 10 failures, like the Edsel, the Commodore 64 and the Laserdisc. By analyzing the path that successful technologies take to acceptance and the roadblocks that stymie the failures, we can at least hazard a guess about the Segway...
...quiet Sunday morning in Silicon Valley, I am standing atop a machine code-named Ginger - a machine that may be the most eagerly awaited and wildly, if inadvertently, hyped high-tech product since the Apple Macintosh. Fifty feet away, Ginger's diminutive inventor, Dean Kamen, is offering instruction on how to use it, which in this case means waving his hands and barking out orders...
...Macintosh, you have permission to get excited. Apple starts selling the $399 iPod this week. It plugs into any Mac with FireWire--which these days is all of them. FireWire is such a blazingly fast and useful connection, it can download a hundred songs a minute and recharge the iPod at the same time. Even better, iPod is smart enough to know when you have put new MP3 files on your Mac--from your CDs or from the Internet--and upload them automatically...
Windows XP is really the first easy-to-use, built-from-scratch operating system for PC users. It narrows the ain't-computing-fun gap with the Macintosh platform. That's because Microsoft took a cue or two from Apple...