# 08 Feb 2007, 07:31AM: Misc:
From class yesterday, in "managing emerging technologies":
"I believe that they originally went by Research Associates, or Internet Research Agency. [pause] But that information may be false."
[during a presentation on solar energy in the 20th century] "I heard Monsanto's taking out a patent on the sun."
Yesterday was the first round of failed technology presentations. Betamax, Laserdisc, WebTV, and Carter/Reagan-era solar energy. Fun fact: Philips, a company that has a claim on inventing the VCR, backed neither VHS nor Betamax. They originally went with a format you've never heard of, V-2000.
Tonight I host a Meetup group about web comics at the Skylight Diner on 34th St. Come on down if you like.
Ze Frank tells the clear, bitter truth about procrastination.
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