![]() ![]() ![]() He was asked for accreditation he showed them a gold medal, and they let him on. I saw a Hungarian fencer try to board a media bus Sunday night. Great moments ricochet around the web at incredible speed. The American basketball team is tweeting pictures of each other sleeping or in berets, which the Dream Team never did. There are, of course, all kinds of ways Twitter is making the Olympics more fun. NBC, of course, was being criticized for tape-delaying the Games and reneging on the promise to live-stream them over the Internet, which in the age of Twitter - where every big event becomes a campfire around which people can digitally gather - has produced a flood of criticism of the network, which has nonetheless reaped record ratings. The network admitted it complained about the tweet in question, and said, “Twitter alone levies discipline,” but the whole thing was ominous and sour, and precisely the sort of heavy-handed cudgel work the IOC would use. A search for the publication of email addresses on Twitter reveals a nearly endless list, from users with as-yet unsuspended accounts. NBC, coincidentally, is also partnering with Twitter during the Olympics. Meanwhile, the Hollywood correspondent for the London-based Independent newspaper, Guy Adams, saw his Twitter account suspended after harsh criticism of NBC’s Olympic coverage Twitter, in emails to Adams, cited his use of the email account of NBC Olympics executive Gary Zenkel, saying it ran counter to its policy banning the publication of private email addresses.īut Zenkel’s email address is a corporate one, with a discernible first name/last name/company name pattern. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.Overcoming the unknown.ĭo you have an innovative achievement you’d like to celebrate-something others in the photonics community could benefit from? Reach out. At least in my experience, it’s the excitement of being able to address the problems you did not even know existed when you first embarked on the challenge. Goals are really just milestones and reminders to celebrate the successes along the way. It’s great to have the goal at the end, but for innovators, that’s rarely the endgame. Directed energy, uncrewed planes, and an array of optical sensor-based systems continue to achieve new milestones. As a result, many of the core components needed to turn the Star Wars dream into a reality don’t just exist, the current offerings are amazingly advanced. The people who have been in the trenches at government labs like Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the many prime- and sub-contractors involved have been introducing innovation after innovation along the way. But that could not be further from the truth. I can feel the pain the engineers and scientists experienced throughout the research and development of the various components.Īt a quick glance, it may appear that we are no closer than we were at the program’s kickoff. There was a lot of money officially dumped into the program for roughly a decade. Remember the excitement around President Reagan’s strategic defense initiative nicknamed Star Wars introduced in 1983? It had a lot of lofty goals, requiring advanced technology that just didn’t exist at the time. What got me thinking about this was a solid panel discussion at the Laser Focus World Executive Forum on directed energy. And sometimes it ends up just being a timing issue-even the most amazing innovation can struggle to achieve the traction anticipated if the market is not ready to embrace its awesomeness. Even the best laid plans with seemingly perfect roadmaps are littered with annoying detours and sometimes impossible roadblocks. There’s no way around it, there is a bit of a high to it.īut having been intimately involved in developing innovative new products myself back in my manufacturing days, I know all too well that there is always an unavoidably healthy dose of discouragement, disappointment, and maddening frustration along the way. The thrill of fulfilling the inventor’s dream. Watching as industry embraces your innovation. Thinking about all the innovations constantly happening within photonics, it’s easy to get wrapped up in the excitement.
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