In my story ‘A Different Kind of Courage,’ I have Amanda Newly serving as a summer intern on a project that is testing a computer driven excavator. Sci-fi stuff, right?
Not any more. A news story today entitled ‘Drones’ Next Job: Construction Work
Komatsu to Use Unmanned Aircraft, Bulldozers to Automate Early Foundation Work’ puts that to pay.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/drones-next-job-construction-wor...
Maybe I should sue for infringement of patent rights?
HW Coyle
a.k.a. Nancy Cole
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While you'd have to own the
While you'd have to own the patent rights to the process for that, you could try copyright infringement (grins). It's nice to see some things progressing.
Thanks for the update,
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Erin G <3
Arthur Clarke
Invented the concept of the communications satellite. When asked why he hadn't patented it, he commented that the Americans would just have ignored it, and had more money for lawyers than him, and as for the Soviets...
There is another reason
At that time the general environment was not one where you patented everything in sight.
Even up to the early 1980's this held true.
I invented something in 1981 and thought nothing more of it because it was embedded in another product.
Then in 1995 IBM came out with a product that ironically I have made a living off of as a developer/consultant for the last 15+ years.
So true... but still...
...would you rather be a creative author with inspiring ideas.... or someone who services muddy construction drones? ;-)
K@
The Biggest Australian Mining Companies
Have been using driverless dump trucks for a few years now. I don't know about driverless excavators.
Theodore Sturgeon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killdozer!_(film)