SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2019 Reprint Tuesday, August 28, 2018 Parent and child inventions / discoveries Parent and child inventions and discoveries: Let me give you an example: Let's say ocean is a parent; Would it be possible to have a ship without it? Would you be building it? There's no point in it, right? How about social media without the Internet? Isn't it possible that at least some of us are futurists -- We'd be ridiculed for doing something which might not appear logical now in this era -- Our theories perhaps are not compliant. What if there's no computer? Like this: No this No that? Got it? No parent invention / discovery -- and, No child invention / discovery. Okay -- How about discoveries? Just imagine we find some planet -- say, Mars, for instance, is inhabitable for us -- Just image -- just one discovery would change everything. Or, let's say we find something -- gain something from The Uncontacted Tribes -- What if they've a cure for AIDS? Flying cars are real now -- at least quite promising prototypes. Individuals flying donning backpack-like gear -- Doesn't this tell us that Superman isn't a cartoon character anymore? One more thing: Just don't be a good end-user -- If you can't invent -- discover anything -- at least make exhaustive use of present technologies to catapult your child inventions etc. In a nutshell: Domino effect. If there's an OS - so you create an add-on or variant of it-- so on so forth. Maybe all those make-believe stories about Venus are true! Who knows -- Go get your telescope! The Hunchbacked Whirling Dervish Latitude and longitude coordinates are: 17.387140, 78.491684. These're real GPS coordinates: Just don't nuke me! LOL Posted by Maqsood Qureshi at 3:28 PM POSTED BY MAQSOOD QURESHI AT 10:19 AM