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Hollywood (H)IT

by Sunil Sharma

May 26, 2005


Imagine you are playing the piano and suddenly you get an inspiration about how to radio control a torpedo. You develop the concept and patent it. Twenty years later, your idea is used in the ships sent to blockade an enemy country.

Fast forward 20 years. The government declassifies the technology and a whole lot of commercial applications employing the concept are launched, including an amazing company whose stock once shot up 25 times within a single year.

Twenty more years later, your concept is still the source of another phenomenon sweeping across the business world.

You would probably be called a genius and known as an expert in the field of communications.

Well, this actually happened.



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"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself."
- Johann Sebastian Bach