_New Yorker_ Article Comparing Tech IP To Art IP

[Bret Cahill]

Anyone see the recent _New Yorker_ article comparing tech IP where
personality isn't nearly the factor as in the arts?


Bret Cahill

 

[John Larkin]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:29:04 -0700 (PDT), Bret Cahill
<BretCahill@aol.com> wrote:

Anyone see the recent _New Yorker_ article comparing tech IP where
personality isn't nearly the factor as in the arts?


Bret Cahill

Link?

Personality is crucial to electronic design. The difference between
engineering and art is that engineering has to work, and is tested.

John

 

[John Larkin]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:04:45 -0700 (PDT), Bret Cahill
<BretCahill@aol.com> wrote:

Anyone see the recent _New Yorker_ article comparing tech IP where
personality isn't nearly the factor as in the arts?

Bret Cahill

Link?

Personality is crucial to electronic design. The difference between
engineering and art is that engineering has to work, and is tested.

The role of personality may in fact be just as important in tech as
the arts; it's just not nearly as obvious in tech.

It is to the people who understand it, and do it. The details of
electronic design just aren't as visible, or "accessible", to the
public as a Batman movie.

In tech the
personality part is far enough removed or isolated from the final
solution it's untraceable. Even most of those in the field don't
really care or notice how it came about.

Are you talking about art, or about fashion? When the artist becomes
more important than the art, you're dealing with cult of personality,
or perhaps investment opportunities. A greek statue, by an unknown
artist, stands on its own, as does a superb frequency synthesizer. A
Kincaid painting doesn't.

For example, the inventor of the Si nanowire battery was astounded
that his breakthrough was such a seemingly straightforward solution to
a decades old problem. To keep the Si from cracking as it swelled
while charging, he merely made the Si thinner, the same tactic that
has been used for centuries to make wire rope more supple. It's easy
to believe his personality played no role whatsoever. But still,
there was something about his personality that led him to that
"obvious" solution.

Where can I buy some of those batteries?

John

 

[Bret Cahill]

Anyone see the recent _New Yorker_ article comparing tech IP where
personality isn't nearly the factor as in the arts?

Bret Cahill

Link?

Personality is crucial to electronic design. The difference between
engineering and art is that engineering has to work, and is tested.

The role of personality may in fact be just as important in tech as
the arts; it's just not nearly as obvious in tech. In tech the
personality part is far enough removed or isolated from the final
solution it's untraceable. Even most of those in the field don't
really care or notice how it came about.

For example, the inventor of the Si nanowire battery was astounded
that his breakthrough was such a seemingly straightforward solution to
a decades old problem. To keep the Si from cracking as it swelled
while charging, he merely made the Si thinner, the same tactic that
has been used for centuries to make wire rope more supple. It's easy
to believe his personality played no role whatsoever. But still,
there was something about his personality that led him to that
"obvious" solution.

After "Graceland" Paul Simon was attacked for doing something that
"anyone could do." Rhymin' Simon answered, "but anyone didn't do it.
_I_ did it."

That might be the real similarity between tech IP and art IP.


Bret Cahill

 

Anyone see the recent _New Yorker_ article comparing tech IP where
personality isn't nearly the factor as in the arts?

Bret Cahill

Link?

Personality is crucial to electronic design. The difference between
engineering and art is that engineering has to work, and is tested.

The role of personality may in fact be just as important in tech as
the arts; it's just not nearly as obvious in tech.

It is to the people who understand it, and do it. The details of
electronic design just aren't as visible, or "accessible", to the
public as a Batman movie.

In tech the
personality part is far enough removed or isolated from the final
solution it's untraceable. �Even most of those in the field don't
really care or notice how it came about.

Are you talking about art, or about fashion?

You think tech is art or fashion?

Anyway you dodged the issue:

After "Graceland" Paul Simon was attacked for doing something that
"anyone could do." Rhymin' Simon answered, "but anyone didn't do it.
_I_ did it."

That might be the real similarity between tech IP and art IP.


Bret Cahill