This may not be a distinctive gadget post , but here ’s an estimate that bewitch me . Nathan Myhrvold , former CTO of Microsoft , leave to rule a company hollo Intellectual Ventures . They invest in invention , not companies . He ’s been the subject of aNew Yorker article on the abundance of big thought by Malcolm Gladwell , which cover the BASIC of what they do at IV . I believe that Nathan also worked on a post - doc in Cosmology alongside Stephen Hawking . Mossberg is interviewing him at D , mighty now .
https://gizmodo.com/the-new-yorker-on-simultaneous-invention-and-the-intell-387900
Nathan is talking about some of his patents , like a mini atomic nuclear reactor . It ’s secure because most accidents in power plants are stimulate by human error , so automatise this and using different fuels ( like spend U and run through rods from big plants ) to make things less dangerous . I wish he ’d talk more about their inventions but Walt and Nathan do n’t think it ’s appropriate to talk physics on stage .
Nathan and co. brainstorm ideas and permit patents . Do they troll patent ? They have n’t .
They took the total company to Iron Man to hear the descent from the bad guy : “ Just because you had an thought does n’t intend you own it . ” He hates that cat !
Walt is asking him about patent problem in tech , where terrible patent of invention are being approve . Nathan says that originally , the patent federal agency would n’t okay software program . Patents were ignored at first by software people , because amphetamine was more important than “ possess ” .
Nathan : “ It was a well decision ; many companies went immense and bonny or foul tell , hey , we ’re going to produce fast and copy everything we can whether it ’s patented or not . Big boys diddle jolty . ” ( Interesting perspective from an Ex Msft guy - B.L. )
By the way , Nathan has very entertaining voice , low-down and high . He ’d be a bully audiobook voice worker .
“ You have to think that there ’s some technology that will take us from today to tomorrow , but there have n’t been . We conceive it was 3D , but it was not . No one has done that graphical handling for part or enquiry . Maybe that ’s a failure of imagination but no one has enter that out and I wish we would . ”
Mossberg asks about Apple ’s Multitouch on the iPhone , where Jobs claimed 200 patents in the machine . Nathan suspects that the multitouch in the iPhone was done before , outside of both Apple and Microsoft , by someone who could n’t rend it off .
Calacanis had an interesting question : Is IV make an unethical terra firma grab for patents ? His solution was that he did n’t know how to answer that doubtfulness , except that people might quetch if he has a lot of succeeder , but no one was go to give him back his money . ( Fair enough — B.L. )
Guy from Intel call for if an unintended issue of IV ’s patent action and meditation is that big fellowship would keep exsert patents to protect them . Nathan says it ’s BS . Most society are doing R&D with a little R and a BIG D. They postulate to put more into the enquiry . If people have it off they can spin out out invention , like they do divisions , they ’ll be more likely to do more enquiry .
“ If you ’re not doing something that is somewhat threatening to the orchard apple tree go-cart , you ’re not doing something interesting . ”
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