Skunkworks

Everybody is talking these days about how the new cars will be fuel cell based, will drive without any human help and basically will change the world. What they are doing here is very good for sure, because they go away from oil towards renewable energy sources but I am sure that if you want to really change the world you need to produce a paradigm shift of a bigger magnitude. Something similar or better then the Segway will do, but would help to be a little more successful
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Around 10 years ago, it was a big hype around satellite based mobile communications and internet access.
The big 3 names were Iridium , Globalstar and Teledesic. You can check the Wikipedia articles about what happened with them. Is less important what happened is more important what can be done to avoid the mistakes. Short story below:
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I have 2 mobile phones, 1 PDA, 1 digital camera, 1 video camera. And yes I have 5 different chargers for each of the mobile devices I own.
The fun part is that all the devices have comparable electric requirements.
Is clear why all the big companies do not want to have a common standard, but I am wonder what can we do to force them to agree on a common standard and then implement it.
Wouldn’t be nice to use my Sony mobile phone charger to charge the Canon video camera, or the IPAQ I have?

After we force them ( do not know exactly how, but I am still thinking ) to have a universal charger, the next step would be to make the batteries interchangeable. I know this step is going to be partially successful, due to the difference in size between the devices, but I like to dream with open eyes.

Everybody is talking about convergence, as in one device will fit all needs, but I think is simpler to converge the electric part first, and then the electronics part.

Is weird these days how companies are talking about their employees as their best assets, but when it comes to treat the employees as the best assets nothing happens. Some times the opposite is happened. Why the company decide what is good and what is wrong for me on the internet if I am a valuable asset? Why the company is reading my email if I am a trustworthy person?
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