" Timing your technology " means stop spending your ti me too much on technology but rather focus on some important things in your life . Many startups have a long list of failed predecessors who tried to do much the same thing, often simultaneous with several other competitors (startups are just as susceptible to multiple discovery as science/technology in general3). Was the technological power just not sufficient 30 years ago?, [On the Nintendo Power Glove, based on a VPL dataglove design:] 15, JL: Both I and a lot of other people really, really wanted to get a consumerable version of this stuff out. I dont know what they can do to move faster but I suspect it has to do with placement (distribution) and with networks which both depend on (corrupt) entities.. Cook calls this cracking the nut. The research manager had to be active in defining goals, in marshaling means and resources, and in assessing success or failure. stfu and watch for those who watching rn alam ko na pinagagawa din kayo ng sir/mam nyo nga ganito hahahahah You could never design a bicycle theoretically. One was formation testing,9,10 the other production-log testing.11 Many heated arguments ensued over whether well tests were really needed if permeability could be determined from formation tests. The aim of the study is to evaluate the effects of sports, sports education, technological uses, and their effects on sports education. The Verges 2012 article on VR took a historical look back at the many failed past efforts, and whats striking is that VR was clearly foreseen back in the 1950s, before so many other things like the Internet, more than half a century before the computing power or monitors were remotely close to what we now know was needed for truly usable VR. Even the Mississippi Company worked out: The ships that went abroad on behalf of his great company began to turn a profit. This was oft-cited as an example of how technoweenies failed to understand that people didnt really want videophones at allwho wants to put on makeup before making a call?, people offered as an explanation, in all seriousnessbut really, it looks like the videophones back then simply werent good enough. Also, we have models for horizontal and hydraulically fractured wells, homogeneous and heterogeneous reservoirs, and a host of useful boundary geometries. He had to intervene where necessary to minimize friction between chemists and medical researchers, an especially important task for chemotherapy as a composite entity. At his trial, Fred testified that as president of the Enterprise board and with supporting letters from his sisters, he had authority to commit the board. That is what makes a problem important. Virgin Atlantic: airlines are cool. Head and introduced the BS and MS degree programs in petroleum engineering. why should a podcasting company, Odeo, have led to Twitter? Yet, how useful would this knowledge be, really? Example: in retrospect, we know everyone wanted computers, OSes, social networksbut the history of them is strewn with flaming rubble. X Research source. and err Ehlig-Economides has published more than 50 papers, has authored two patents, and has lectured or consulted in more than 30 countries. That old failed idea might be ready for prime time. 9, 4 (1969)] There is also fair agreement that the chief obstacles are not hardware limitations. He could spot the points where the enemys line was broken, and the reverse salients in his own. Tariq, Syed M., and Ramey, H.J. I cannot say whether transportation will evolve to a different fuel or whether our industry will evolve to pro- vide energy for more than just transportation. (Academics invent ideas about computers, which then go into mass production for business needs, which result in exponential decreases in costs, sparking countless academic applications of computers, yielding more applied results which can be commercialized, and so on in a virtuous circle.) Learning can occur in many forms and situations. I was still commuting to Connecticut on the weekends and really did not know what was going to transpire on my return. With few exceptions, established offline firms have failed to catch up to today's Internet leaders. Then after your special knowledge has become public knowledge, the robotics company goes public, and by EMH, their shares become a normal investment. Cell phones, computers, radios, watches, and many other devices rely for their success on an electronic oscillator that produces an output with a precise frequency to generate timing pulses and synchronize events. If your instructor demands a word count outside of this range, meet your instructor's requirements. Reflection gives meaning to experience; it turns experience into practice, links past and present experiences, and prepares the individual for future practice. For his attack on one of the most important reverse salientsthe chemotherapy of bacterial infectionsHrlein called upon the medical researcher Domagk and the chemists Mietzsch and Klarer. (TML). Also, people started getting lazy and more ignorant. Machine learning, deep learning, is one of the hot topics of our time, but a lot of the math was worked out decades agobackpropagation, for example, in the 1980s and 1990s. o Activity Report: Technology and Past ( interviews with elders) o Nature's Longest Threads by Janaki. Smartphones are an even bigger example of this. Such targeted research efforts can have disproprotionate payoffs and lead to sudden breakthroughs as the enemys frontline collapses. In RLs multi-armed bandit setting, each turn one has a set of arms or options with unknown payoffs and one wants to maximize the total long-term reward. What made them a success was that they happened to give the pinata a whack at the exact moment where some S-curves or events hit the right point. This did not deter Marconi from the attempt, even though he was as unaware of the existence of the Heaviside layer as everyone else. The solution to this apparent dilemma starts with the recognition that a business enterprise's value depends on the level and rate of growth of its cash flow. Santos, Ma.Miguela B. BSBA - FM2 Science,Technology and Society Reflection: Timing your Technology This year has caused financial services firms to rethink . With so many disruptive technologies on the horizon, timing your move into each can make the difference between getting ahead of the competition and falling irreparably behind. 2 I told him he was right, but that pressure data were quite noisy, that the analytical solutions were differentiable, but surely not real, data. In the current time people can't imagine their life without technology. It will only do one thing well, and youll have to move all of your content to use it. Is there a sustainable development reason to reduce our consumption? The researchers used qualitative research approach in this study with phenomenological research design. In the 1980s, famed technologist Stewart Brand visited the equally-famed MIT Media Lab (perhaps the truest spiritual descendant of the MIT AI Lab) & Nicholas Negroponte, publishing a 1988 book, The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T. Technological developments can be foreseen but the knowledge is largely useless because startups are inherently risky and require optimal timing. The lesson of history is that for every lesson, there is an equal and opposite lesson. However, they also brought us cyber warfare, hackers, identity theft, cyber stalking, and a host of other bad things. . And even when there are stocks available to buy, you only benefit based on the specificslike one of the existing stocks being a winner, rather than all the stocks being eaten by some new startup. Once, Freds luck at the gaming tables of Las Vegas helped to save the company from financial disaster. Dude, dont you remember CueCat at all? Yet both of these can be enablers for competitive advantage. The loan guarantee from General Dynamics raised our hopes and increased our spirits, but also increased the pressure to finalize the private placement. IBM and Apple both went nearly bankrupt at points, and Microsofts stock has been flat since 1999 or whenever (translating to huge real losses and opportunity costs to long-term holders of it). And, incidentally, offering an example of why stock markets are fine with paying executives so much: a good executive can createor destroythe entire company. Ehlig-Economides, C.A. Youve seen the curves Gordon Moore discovered. In this sense, Hrlein might be said to have thoughtas Thomas Hughes has shown that Edison didin terms of reverse salients and critical problems. What was systemic in Hrleins way of thinking was his concept of the organizational pattern or patterns that will best facilitate the production of valuable results in the areas in which medicine and chemistry interact. Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?). By important I mean guaranteed a Nobel Prize and any sum of money you want to mention. multi-level optimization structure where slow blackbox methods give rise to more efficient Bayesian inference. Today, I am not really a proponent of type-curve matching per se, but rather with using the derivative response to recognize flow regimes.13 We now can use data processing originally designed for convolution or deconvolution of downhole pressure and flow-rate data for analysis of production data.14 This approach is particularly effective in wells with permanent gauges. I think most people are aware of fads/stampedes in investing, but the latter error is not so commonly discussed. In hindsight the things that worked look like good ideas and the ones that failed look stupid, but sadly its not that obvious at the time. Browning did not read it as we read it now. 1). This technological advancement is believed to be able to address the knowledge gap in neurophysiology and neurological disorder. Indeed, the U. S. Department of Transportation estimates that V2V technology may eliminate or reduce the impact of up to 80 percent of crashes involving unimpaired drivers. The energy business should ensure that the world has the affordable sustainable energy it needs without undue environmental impact. Socially, one wants people regularly tossing their bodies into the marketplace to be trampled by uncaring forces just on the off chance that this time itll finally work, and since the critical factors are unknown and constantly changing, one needs a sacrificial startup every once in a while to check (for a good idea, no amount of failures is enough to prove that it should never be triedmany failures just implies that there should be a backoff). Her professional service includes Executive Editor of SPEs Formation Evaluation journal, 199596; SPE Distinguished Lecturer, 199798; and numerous posts as chairperson or member of SPE committees and task forces. For instance, in the old days, in order to tell where your head was so that you could position virtual content to be standing still relative to you, we used to have to use some kind of external reference point, which might be magnetic, ultrasonic, or optical. : Pressure Build-Up in Wells,. Every authentic solution brings in its wake a train of grotesque solutions. Reflection-in-action "Thinking about what you are doing, while you are doing it." (Schn, 1983) Reflection-in-action happens in what Schn (1983) describes as 'the midst of activity' - in coaching terms this is likely to be during a coaching session or game. Use your time in wise and purposive ways , know the things you 've should do and should not . So, it seems that rapid progress depends on crazy people. One guy will do most of the work. Bible verses about God's perfect timing. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin wont make a search engine. 1. The timeliness of your word is surely on point.". In fact, timing is a science. 3). timing the adoption of a new the strategic alternatives open to competing ing real option approach seems to provide a technology. Ed Boyden on Minding your Brain (Ep. These23 bulbs (each an original in its inventors eyes) varied tremendously in how they fleshed out the abstraction of electric lightbulb. Different inventors employed various shapes for the filament, different materials for the wires, different strengths of electricity, different plans for the bases. Of course Google was always going to be a huge success because of PageRank and also (post hoc theorizing) Z, Y, & Z, except for the minor problem that Google was merely one of many search engines, great perhaps11 but not profitable, and didnt hit upon a profitable business modelmuch less a unicorn-worth modeluntil 4 years later when it copied Overtures advertising auction, which was its salvation (In The Plex); in the mean time, Google had to sign potentially fatal deals or risking burning through the last of its capital when minor technical glitches derailed vital deals. The concept behind antireflection technology is to control the light used in an optical device in such a manner that the light rays reflect from surfaces where it is intended and . Dasmarias, Cavite College of Business and Technology. In a counterfactual world, Google went down in flames quite easily because it never hit upon the advertising innovations that saved it, no matter how much you liked PageRank, and anything else is hindsight bias. I was expecting smartphones to take off in mid 2004 and was disappointed over and over again. If convicted, he would have faced a prison term of up to five years. Previously, Ms. Ehlig-Economides has taught at Texas A&M University, Stanford University and the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. It wont have cut and paste. insulin, chemotherapy of kala-azar and malaria) that are solvable and whose solutions would eliminate the reverse salients.18. And you know what? These days you put some kind of camera on the head and look around in the room and it just calculates where you arethe headsets are self-sufficient instead of relying on an external reference infrastructure. ], Investing in Good Ideas That Look Like Bad Ideas, Networks of Power: Electrification in Western. Technology has existed for many years, maybe not the type of technology we have now because it managed to evolve throughout time. For many claims, there is no way to invest in an idea except by going all in and launching a company, resulting in extreme variance in outcomes, even when the idea is good and the forecasts correct about the (eventual) outcome. We were talking about the past: VR wasnt talked about for a long time, right? The aeroplane industry cannot now redeem Daedalus nor can the computer industry recover the money spent by the British Admiralty more than a hundred years ago in support of Charles Babbage and his calculating machine. Technology can be the knowledge of techniques, processes, and the like, or it can be embedded in machines which can be operated without detailed knowledge of their workings. BOYDEN: One way to think of it is that, if a scientific topic is really popular and everybodys doing it, then I dont need to be part of that. After all, why would they say no? Without the communication technologies in which the modern society relies heavily upon, the life as we all know it would cease to exist. Sensors, displays batteries! But just by trial and error, we found out how to do it, and the error was essential. Another time, we had to ask our employees to hold their paychecks while we waited for the next wave of financingFred dumped his entire inheritance into the company and was full speed ahead without concern for his personal finances. PHILIPPINE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY. Cer- ogy investments because it allows one to Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. At one time I considered writing a study of Kafkas precursors. In this case, the flowmeter acquires data while the well is flowing, which is what it is intended to do. From 1980 to 1983, she was an assistant professor at the U. of AlaskaFairbanks, where she became Petroleum Engineering Dept. Translation, Katsuki Sekida, Two Zen Classics: The Gateless Gate and The Blue Cliff Records, 2005., Which as a side note is wrong; compiled predictions actually indicate that AI researcher forecasts, while varying anywhere from a decade to centuries, typically cluster around 20 years in the future regardless of researcher age. But enough time has passed since 1988 to enable us to judge the basic truthfulness of the predictions and expectations held by the dreamers such as Nicholas Negroponte: they were remarkably accurate! ChristineEhlig-Economides, through her eventful career, has been there when many breakthroughs were made that have created a step change in our understanding of the mechanisms that govern the recovery of hydrocarbons. Someone could have built the Rift in mid-to-late 2007 for a few thousand dollars, and they could have built it in mid-2008 for about $673.5$500.02008. Its a weird perspective to take, but we can think of other technologies which may be like this. . After all, nonobvious ideas that could in fact become big businesses are by definition nonobvious. I knew immediately that Bourdet was really on to something. These are tempting, but likely cant generate outsize returns because they are simply too obvious and invite too much competition that squeezes out the economic rents. Jorge Luis Borges, Kafka And His Precursors (1951). Starting a new pastime such as playing tennis, learning to paint, riding a horse, or listening to new types of music can provide a fun opportunity to reflect on what and how you are thinking and learning. More importantly, he showed me what differentiated quartz-gauge data looked like. Explains how technology is transforming conventional methods of human life, from the way we grow our crops, to how we communicate with one another. My best timing was meeting my husband of nearly 30 years, Michael Economides. Gamify self reflection by keeping a running streak using a Google Doc or an app like Streaks. We can think of the prototypes as 23 different attempts to describe the inevitable generic lightbulb. Well differentiate with a funny safety video and by not being aholes. What is different? Err This will work well for traditional interviews and those stations at the MMI which ask more traditional interview questions. You cant foresee what will be successful based on what has been successful; you cant even foresee what wont be successful based on what was already unsuccessful; and you cant ask researchers because they are incentivized to not know the timing any better than anyone else. When interviewed many years later about why, despite being a lawyer by training, he was the natural founder for an airline business, Kelleher quipped: I knew nothing about airlines, which I think made me eminently qualified to start one, because what we tried to do at Southwest was get away from the traditional way that airlines had done business.. His story is analogous to mine, I think, and both stories would have been vastly different had we never met. When Marc and Ben first started Andreessen Horowitz, they described this founder leadership capability as egomaniacal. Their theorynotwithstanding the choice of wordswas that to make the decision to be a founder (a job fraught with likely failure), an individual needed to be so confident in her abilities to succeed that she would border on being so self-absorbed as to be truly egomaniacal. I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. 4.). In essence, this means that usually the time isn't right for most innovations. We tried something, or somebody else tried something, and it didnt work. Hrlein perceived a need for a set of mutually complementary institutions and trained personnel whose interaction produces the desired results. Such a device would not have been aimed at the then unattainable goal of economic viability; but its successful demonstration might, just conceivably, have greatly accelerated matters when the time was finally ripe. In a Governing . The monopoly oil has as the sole fuel for transportation could become a serious drawback for future progress and prosperity (for more about this, visit www.ceeti.org). PayPals major challenge, for example, was not finding a market like eBay power sellers, but coping with fraud as they scaled, which apparently was the undoing of any number of rivals., Personally, I was still using Dogpile until at least 2000.. How often did I read in the 90s and early 00s about how amazing Japanese cellphones were and how amazing a good smartphone would be, even though year after year the phones were jokes and used pretty much solely for voice? They were correct, but many of them would be surprised & disappointed how long it took., #326, Part II. and what it isn't. Learning for the sake of learning. Self-reflection is the simple and altruistic art of looking inward into one's true persona. We may want things now, we may want them fast, But God knows best, our future is cast. In reality, until quartz gauges were introduced in formation testers, this argument was highly ill-conceived, but it certainly provoked a lot of animated discussion. A kind of definition of Value of Information: If you do not work on an important problem, its unlikely youll do important work. [8: European AISB Newsletter, no. Ironically, I was still at the U. of AlaskaFairbanks when my graduate student, Barney Wagner,7 was working on type curves for fractured wells in elongated reservoir geometries. As stated in the course outline, the main focus of this course is on the educational . While upper management panders to environmentalists, the young minions keep slogging it out, delivering the oil and gas that is desperately needed all over the world as though there will be no end to it. Here again we must be pessimistic. You dont have to be bipolar to be an entrepreneur, but it might help. Thiel (Zero to One; original): Every moment in business happens only once. I think they were just early. Whatever the evidence, the fundamental question VCs are trying to answer is: Why back this founder against this problem set versus waiting to see who else may come along with a better organic understanding of the problem? Why are success and failure so intertwined in the tech industry? Suppose you somehow knew in 2000 that in 2010, the founder of the most successful social network will be worth at least $10b; this is a falsifiable belief at odds with all conventional wisdom and about a tech that blindsided everyone. 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