http://sbspalding.disqus.com/enMon, 09 Feb 2009 10:50:58 -0000http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/visions-of-the-future/#comment-6114945Wow! amazing pictures and the post, enjoyed it a lot, thank you very much for posting!RadardetectorsMon, 09 Feb 2009 10:50:58 -0000http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/visions-of-the-future/#comment-225983Some nice examples, but I think I've got the best one. Back in 1995 UK I had some entrepreneurial idea & someone said derisively ' So is everyone going to have their own computers then ?' It seems to have happened like that.Maggy YoungWed, 12 Mar 2008 19:31:43 -0000http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/visions-of-the-future/#comment-195185The "home computer" mockup is from a fark photoshop contest and is actually a submarine control roomTIBTSun, 02 Mar 2008 13:08:27 -0000http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/visions-of-the-future/#comment-195176Thank you for the article mate. Well stated.sbspaldingSun, 02 Mar 2008 13:00:31 -0000http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/visions-of-the-future/#comment-195175Everything that can be invented has been invented.”<br>–Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.<br><br>This statement attributed to Charles Duell has been authoritatively debunked for quite some time but still seems to cling to a life all its <br>own, I suppose, because the statement has a certain quality about<br>it that people find amusing. <br><br>Here below is an excerpt/link to what amounts to a convincing case <br>as only one small step towards restoring the honor of the poor, lamentably impugned otherwise qualified Commissioner, U.S.Office<br>of Patents, Charles H. Duell.<br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>A Patently False Patent Myth still! Did a patent official really once resign because he thought nothing was left to invent? Once such myths start they take on a life of their own - 1989 article reprinted - Reprint<br>Skeptical Inquirer, May-June, 2003 by Samuel Sass<br><br>It is rare that we feel moved to republish an earlier SKEPTICAL INQUIRER article. But the myth that a patent commissioner once resigned because "everything that can he invented has been invented" keeps being uncritically repeated in prominent news outlets. So we thought it would he interesting and useful to reprint Samuel Sass's brief article investigating that claim, "A Patently False Patent Myth," from our Spring 1989 issue. The article has not appeared in any SI anthology. Author Sass has slightly revised one paragraph, and at the end he provides an update.<br><br>For close to a century there has periodically appeared in print the story about an official of the U.S. Patent Office who resigned his post because he believed that all possible inventions had already been invented. Some years ago, before I retired as librarian of a General Electric Company division, I was asked by a skeptical scientist to find out what there was to this recurring tale. My research proved to be easier than I had expected. I found that this matter had been investigated as a project of the D.C. Historical Records Survey under the Works Projects Administration. The investigator, Dr. Eber Jeffery published his findings in the July 1940 Journal of the Patent Office Society.....link to the article.<br><br><a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2843/is_3_27/ai_100755224" rel="nofollow">http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2843/is_...</a>x00xSun, 02 Mar 2008 12:59:19 -0000http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/visions-of-the-future/#comment-195169:) that is really goodburçlarSun, 02 Mar 2008 12:57:20 -0000