Innovate Thinking about innovation is oddly conformist, & unaware of its lack of originality. The best breakthroughs came from research that appeared useless & irrelevant to real life. Such efforts must be supported, even with no quick payback, or the next wave of innovation will just not occur Guessed the Word? …
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Kilo The Kibble Balance, an exquisitely accurate weighing machineloosens France’s grip on the kiloas it measures mass more accurately. From 1790s, 1 kg = a cylinder of metal (which changes weight as it reacts with air) in a Paris vault. The Kibble, a 1975 British invention, defines weight against the Planck constant, one of…
Pink chocolate Coming soon – pink chocolate. The 4th type after dark, milk and white. 1st new type for 80 years, since white was invented in 1930s. Is pink naturally, and has a smooth berry taste – fruit/ cream/ sour combined. Made by innovative Swiss manufacturing process after a decade of research, from ruby cocoa…
Yesteryear Every generation thinks it’s in transformational times.But technological change in past 50 years isn’t as great as between 1890 to 1950, when rifles, horses & Morse telegraph advanced to atomic bombs, jet aircraft & TV. Only exception is in invisibles (data/ computers), which is accelerating exponentially Guessed the Word? Series 24…