Notes on Invention: (1) Buck Rogers in the 21st Century
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 Posted in Invention | No Comments »Buck appears to have been made-up by writer Philip Francis Nowlan in 1928 in two short novels published by Amazing Stories. Rogers' original first name was Anthony. He has appeared in a variety of media since--newspaper comic strips, radio ...
The Utterly Neuz–Notes on the Sociology of Invention
Monday, December 17th, 2007 Posted in Invention | No Comments »The utterly new is rare. The out-of-the-blue is possible but the neuz is more likely to be anticipated and prefigured. Think of the original beyond original as among the giant leaps for mankind, or perhaps as a wild ...
Invention: Pro, Con, or Maybe
Friday, December 14th, 2007 Posted in Invention | No Comments »The universal test for invention is the measure of acceptance-rejection-indifference. Each invention has its own validation argument--based on experiment, faith, consensus, authority, legislation, intuition, beauty, utility and so on. Some of the neuz are trivial or private or transitory and ...
Invention Affirmed
Monday, December 10th, 2007 Posted in Neuz, Invention | No Comments »Distinguish between the latest copy, the new, and the never previously realized, the neuz. Invention is the making up or finding of the neuz. Do not limit the universal human capacity for invention to tinkerers in cellars and garages ...