[Dialogue] re turn to the world

[steve har]

The very large and weighty turn symbol was welded by Oscar Sperstad who
along with Roberta lived near Eau Clare, Wisc. As I remember, it showed up,
unmovable, on the 2nd floor. I don't know what happened to it or how it
began.

Reminds me one time when I was working at the Russian Federal Securities
Commission in the 1990s trying to help organize a conference of capitalists.
Back stage there was a car-sized bust of Lenin that wouldn't be moved, so
people just walked around it on the way to their power point pitches for
having a USA style "market" economy.

Wiegel burned the research eh? No wonder I'm confused. Sounds like Canticle
for Libowitz where the old models were destroyed and people spent centuries
trying to figure out why electricity works because they lost the original
thinking on which the inventions were build.

Those that don't remember, or forgot, get to re-live it I think.

It would be interesting to have a challenge question like what are the top
50 innovations in the archives that were innovations then and might be in
the future.

Anyone have a candidate innovation from the old days that might have a
future?

-- 
Steve Harrington
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://wedgeblade.net/pipermail/dialogue_wedgeblade.net/attachments/20110804/cf7c2e83/attachment.html>