Comments - Making SF more visible in the world - SOL summer report - SOLWorld2024-03-28T15:42:39Zhttp://solworld.org/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=2102269%3ABlogPost%3A27787&xn_auth=noForgot to thank you Paul for…tag:solworld.org,2010-08-30:2102269:Comment:289832010-08-30T20:57:34.432ZAlan Kayhttp://solworld.org/profile/AlanKay
Forgot to thank you Paul for capturing the team's thinking. I said last week at SFCT that Alexander Graham Bell took a few years to perfect the first telephone (he likely didn't 'invent' it), plus quite a few years to get people to use phones when they were first sold. The user prospects thought the phone was a neat idea, but were quite happy with the mail which many got delivered twice a day in their city. Bell had to put phones in bars and hotels to let people see them being used before they…
Forgot to thank you Paul for capturing the team's thinking. I said last week at SFCT that Alexander Graham Bell took a few years to perfect the first telephone (he likely didn't 'invent' it), plus quite a few years to get people to use phones when they were first sold. The user prospects thought the phone was a neat idea, but were quite happy with the mail which many got delivered twice a day in their city. Bell had to put phones in bars and hotels to let people see them being used before they decided to buy one.<br />
Crudely, we need to 'commercialize' SF to a wider business/organizational world. Inventions are great, but selling or distributing them is another matter. Often the inventors don't make it happen, others do. Alan.