Hi ya'll!

This maybe a little off-topic (then again it may not be) but there were some 
news stories today talking about something called "IT", or code named 
"Ginger". Have any of you heard about this? Here's a paste below from the 
story on the MSNBC web page that talks about "IT"

         ALL THEY DO know: IT, also code-named Ginger, is an invention 
developed by 49-year-old scientist Dean Kamen, and the subject of a planned 
book by journalist Steve Kemper. According to Kemper’s proposal, IT will 
change the world, and is so extraordinary that it has drawn the attention of 
technology visionaries Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs and the investment dollars 
of pre-eminent Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr, among others.
 
       Kemper — who has been published in Smithsonian, National Geographic 
and Outside among others — has had exclusive access to Kamen and the 
engineers at his New Hampshire-based research and development company, DEKA, 
for the past year and a half. He tags the proposed book as Soul of the New 
Machine meets The New New Thing and won over his agent and publisher with 
e-mails describing the project in carefully couched language. He also 
included an amusing narrative of a meeting between Bezos, Jobs, Doerr and 
Kamen.

       In the proposal, Doerr calls Kamen — who was just awarded the National 
Medal of Technology, the country’s highest such award — a combination of 
Henry Ford and Thomas Edison. Doerr also says, a touch ominously, that he had 
been sure that he wouldn’t see the development of anything in his lifetime as 
important as the World Wide Web — until he saw IT. According to the proposal, 
another investor, Credit Suisse First Boston, expects Kamen’s invention to 
make more money in its first year than any start-up in history, predicting 
Kamen will be worth more in five years than Bill Gates. Jobs told Kamen the 
invention would be as significant as the PC, the proposal says.

The rest of the story is at:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/513749.asp

Very interesting, huh?

-Steve Gregory-

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