an alan kay talk:

The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental

an invention needs demos, an innovation needs packaging.

nationalrat XI. GP. 69 Sitzung, 15. November 1967, Regierungsvorlage 509:

Vertrag über die Grundsätze, welche die Tätigkeiten der Staaten bei der Erforschung und Nutzung des Weltraums, einschließlich des Mondes und anderer Himmelskörper, regeln (614 der Beilagen)

"technical notes from the telegraph administration" a telenor magazin, 1904-2010, anniversary issue

they really had a problem all over europe with their lines. fibre was discussed at ITU already, but it was too new to be used. instead we got copper.

if the usage would have exploded some years later, we might have got fibre, who knows.