by J John Swanko
April, 14 2010 (People Port) Often repeated, "We need to staple green cards to PhD degrees." not true. Only PhDs are getting patents is a myth that one day may become true (business owners protecting their processes, last time I checked). Once, Microsoft did not have any (Sorry, this one is long but should not become a series and is not the article I sat down to write).
America's creativity is not a function of immigration (it helps), it is a function of society allowing innovators to bud, bloom, and flourish. From all the ink dedicated to protecting Wall Street's creativity club, one would hope a local story on some new widget would pop.
While referred to as a system of farm teams: minor leaguers moving up to the major league, I will call it a new form of slavery, indentured servitude may be good also. Started harmlessly, University Services trading information with the business community. Not a billion dollar company, Community College is your best bet.
You will be guaranteed a star. Those watching, What Went Wrong, investigations see why our nation is doomed. The risk experts (or any other expert so far), have yet to mention as a reason, lost jobs, unemployment, under employment... It may look like all CEOs want to hire dummies. Carl Icahn's, Anti-Darwinian Metaphor. While others, have put a much finer point on the problem, Today, many of those anti-big-government voices see a leader investigating the mess, that person's questions appear to defend past economic policy instead of finding out. They argue forcefully, "Throw the bums out." Anyone with a fifth grade education would have done better.
Those with large mega-phones have sized on the wind, to launch an anti-education campaign: PhDs are the problem, Professors are the problem. Part of the problems could be ignorance, rewriting history, lack of empathy are some of our problems. Our systems that we have put in place to advance foster, and grow our tomorrows, instead often feeds into our new slave systems.
Innovators are held back, to get more education. Often they did not know, want, and already knew. The real reason, the -right- person gets the opportunity. We still cling to the notion, How smart you are is a function of how much money you have.
Under this notion, Alexander Bell would have invented the airplane. Our systems seem to operate to guarantee, Bell will invent the airplane or it will not be invented. Strong words, they point to the people currently running our to-big-to-fail banks giving answers that do not take into account our economy and how our economy works.
Why and When I first looked into Microsoft's patents is a short story... I wanted to try out USPTO's satellite office. Working on a computer program, I was sure Microsoft had already invented it. Back then, Microsoft did not have any patents, they had copyrights... I did find the head of Florida's Innovation Center owning quite a few. She mentioned at her Innovation seminars, She's not an inventor. She no longer heads and I cannot find, Florida's Innovation Center.
What you need to know, back then, a portion of those attending those seminars, warned that she and those like her, Will rob you blind. It is not a great leap to today's protesters. Many back then would not attend a seminar at a University campus. I listened and politely disagreed.
Education is the way out of poverty. Innovation will keep this nation safe long after we are gone, Should we allow it to grow again. Most firms have a safe way for innovators to interact with firms, not just Apple and Google.
FaceBook is often touted as the hightech firm of tomorrow. They have recently claimed they are closer to a Mom And Pop operation. FaceBook was pulled along so Universities could keep an eye on their students and it has operated to silence different voices. If a firm with an innovator's portal, has not had successes in the last year, there may be another reason than this bad economy. If your library has a policy that allows your work to be copied, used,... There may be something up.
History demonstrates Ben Franklin added to our nation's founding. I have no problem stapling a green card to inventors's, writers's... degree. The problem I have is slavery, cast system's that promote taking from society's dregs for the use of a higher cast. I have given away plenty because it was the right thing to do not because they were members of a higher cast.
When Google Labs started working on spreadsheets, I offered my, "Decision Support Applications For Business Planning's," Braille edition. They did not take me up on the offer and I did not know cloud computing was yet to be born. Innovation, on top of innovation, on top of innovation.
Google often replace Microsoft when an innovation example is used. Universities like it better because it began at a university. Before Microsoft, Bill Gates was earning income from programs he designed on computer labs at the schools he attended. Back then, he and those like him were cheered on. Today, universities have an absolute right to a piece of what ever is developed, in or out of school. Their farm-team system has become an institution of slavery. It is enforced. Starvation and all the cult tricks come into play and are used for sport. Though not with sport stars.
While the major Mega-Phones continue to bash education, the underlying reason is this new system that will squash innovation, eventually. Told, I just write a blog no one reads. Well maybe, I only care that you still read. People Port, at one time had hundreds of webpages and forty feeds. Some were even monitored for hits. See, No one visited. Well, That may be true, Just so you know, I paid your firm for...
Some will stop reading for this assault on our higher institutions. Self-selection, market segmentation is real.
A fancy company now gets paid to settle website hits. No doubt they have a University Services Department, They will give out any results you want, however, they have dibs on...
Notes:
I am not playing along. Have not ever played along. The best job offer I have had in the last decade, Night Guard at the junk yard. many attempts were made at contacting.
I am testing alternate platforms.
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