From: Andy Toth (transfer_mechanism@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Mar 29 2002 - 03:22:57 MST
david:
2002- american media is going to run your product into the ground (or not
publicize). this product would /perhaps/ sell in israel or some other
active theatre. very few people in the united states are going to accept
your product for internal-use because its invocation indicates defeat. it
also parlays us into a worldstate that we do not want to be in. it is a
device that says "we've given up; but at least we have real-time data on the
decay, and i can carry it around in my pda if i want". keep the patent
information for the app, but do not deploy now.
<see david lightman's conversation with professor falken in the 1983 film
wargames>
the device is also trying to augment the 'acceptance of nuclear
transactions'. ie, if a company is making a product that gives me the data,
then nuclear transactions must be hot and/or acceptable (and that everyone
else must be downloading current nuclear transactions).
which is totally unreasonable.
andy
----Original Message Follows----
From: David Lubkin <lubkin@unreasonable.com>
I was surprised that the reaction from the other list was so
empathic. Here's an interesting dilemma: I'm about to pitch this to news
media as something they should cover. Ideally, in the news section now and
then a review in the technology section when the product is actually
shipping. From what I know of mainstream journalists, they have a lot in
common with the chaps on that other list. So it seems like there's a fair
chance that the people I need to write about it are predisposed to abhor
the idea. *sigh*
Perhaps the right answer is to go directly to misc.survivalism, and maybe
gun or conservative groups, and see if I can establish a modest sales level
and customer base and then look for mainstream press coverage.
And perhaps the technical press (ComputerWorld, Handheld Computing, etc.)
would treat it as straight product news.
>Blimey ! was that a questionaire or was that a questionaire ?
And thank you for being the first to fill it out. Were there any questions
that you did not feel would be useful to me in making decisions about
marketing and future product development? I wish I could get those
nay-sayers to fill it out, too, so I have a clearer sense of the
demographics of the Visceral Nos.
-- David.
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