Here’s Another Breakthrough That Has Had A Longer Than Usual Shelf Life

A better mousetrap?

Gone are the bucket brigades. The fire hydrant revolutionized fire protection. And then rather than make a better hydrant, others thought about prevention versus “cure”. Safer building materials, building codes and inspections. Smoke detectors.

Rather than move from reactive to proactive, some continued thinking about the “cure”: sprinklers, fire extinguishers, better alarms. Faster trucks.

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Breakthroughs Are Always Destined To Become Relics And Historical Milestones

Long ago this was a maritime breakthrough

At the time, breakthroughs are exactly that, cutting edge. Later, relics. What this fact does for me is help me realize that dreaming big may seem crazy, but it’s the only thing that leads to making a difference.

We should rejoice at the countless failures dreamers encountered because we must follow the same path. Fall down seven times, get up eight.

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Head In The Sand, Looking Like A Fool (With Your Pants On The Ground)

Some authorities say this is valid

Let’s just assume that this is a valid statistic. I can’t even comprehend the ramifications. The authorities are saying just 3/10ths of a percent. And this is just one desert.

Remember when cavemen sat around a fire dreaming up ways to wake safely in the wild? Or a couple hundred years ago many thought earth was flat?

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Some Day We’ll Look Back On The iPad 2 As Infantile (For Real)

Dude, someday we'll look back on the iPad 2 as infantile

If you are still enough to reflect on history and where technology is today with the state of the art, game-changing Apple products like iPad 2, then you might start to comprehend that this technology thing is really just a toddler.

It ought to scare and excite the living daylights out of us. We think it’s nuts now, just wait. Decided years ago I wasn’t going to wait any longer to get started. Wait too long and you’re toast. That scared me enough to get started, to….go.

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