Automatic typing

[Walter Bright]

On 7/1/2013 9:57 AM, JS wrote:
> The problem is when such a "idea" is present you get people who are
> automatically against it for various irrational fears and they won't take any
> serious look at it to see if it has any merit...  If you jump to the conclusion
> that something is useless without any real thought on it then it obviously is...
> but the same type of mentality has been used to "prove" just about anything was
> useless at one time or another.

It's up to you to demonstrate your idea has merit. Throwing ideas out and asking 
others to find the merit for you is not going to work. It's even worse when you 
insult them for not finding the merit that you didn't find.

Once you demonstrate merit then go about finding ways to make it work. Not the 
other way around.

There are famous cases in business history where a solution was found before 
anyone identified a problem - 3M's not-very-sticky adhesive that was eventually 
turned into the hugely profitable postit notes is an example - but it languished 
for nearly a decade before someone thought of a use for it. And 3M certainly 
didn't productize it before the problem was discovered.