25th February 2003, 12:34 AM
Change my mind about what exactly? ABF acknowledged something you missed. When I judge the innovation of something like that, I'm ignoring pretty much everything that happened behind the scenes. Don't get me wrong, I actually am interested in things like that, but we are looking at this from a viewer/gamer end, and as such we should only be judging what we see, not how it was done. I mean, think of all the many similar products out there that have some secret method in the background that's totally innovative. Should some new shoe be called innovative just because the way it was made was? As an example, let's say we invented a matter replicater. That's innovative, but the stuff made with it (TVs for instance) are not.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)