Selasa, 14 Oktober 2003

Ipkat Rant: Stereotyping Inventors

New Scientist (4 Oct 2003, p. 92) reports:

"Overheard from a weary patent attorney talking close 1 of the organisations that represents inventors: "It's likely the exclusively trunk where the lunatic fringe extends correct to the centre".

has also met some pretty foreign inventors, but whatever grouping of like-minded people (football fans, cat-fanciers as well as fifty-fifty lawyers) is probable to look abnormal to those on the outside. Inventors long convey been stigmatised both individually as well as collectively for their weirdness -- but isn't their unorthodox manner of viewing things to hold upwards viewed every 2d a virtue rather than every 2d a argue for locking them up? Let's hold upwards overnice to inventors as well as laissez passer them some respect. If nosotros do, they may experience less threatened past times so-called normality as well as pass less fourth dimension as well as endeavor getting upwards patent attorneys' noses.

Google hits for "mad inventor" - around 10,900. Google hits for (possibly partially) "sane inventor" - simply one
Invention jokes here. Stereotypes of the mad inventor here, here and here
Useful data close sane inventors here


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