tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post8011867233061363912..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: Did Regulation Delay Wireless Charging?Gus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-84720108460164588402013-08-20T04:01:19.696-06:002013-08-20T04:01:19.696-06:00Yes. I was also impressed by the combination of tr...Yes. I was also impressed by the combination of traits this inventor exhibited. Your example of Stephen King makes this combination more impressive by contrast, and also provides a moral to anyone who might not have the persistence or business acumen Ms. Perry does.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-49900601172846126012013-08-19T11:27:14.216-06:002013-08-19T11:27:14.216-06:00It would not surprise me if government regulation ...It would not surprise me if government regulation was part of the problem, however I suspect that at some point the laws of physics will add their two cents worth and we'll reach a practical limit to the amount of power which can be safely moved, either by sound waves or other means. Transferring information takes a lot less energy than transferring electrical power.<br />I find it interesting that Ms. Perry took on the whole project creating the invention and selling it, herself and how she specifically sought out those she thought might be more positive. This sort of thing requires not only upfront innovation but also downstream persistence. This, I would guess is one of the reasons that many inventors of the industrial revolution paired with a partner whose job was to sell their product (e.g. James Watt). It seems that characteristic innovation and persistence (or perhaps salesmanship) is not often present in a single person. Or maybe inventors don’t often like dealing with humans who can tend to act irrationally at times. I wonder how many great inventions have been lost in the past by fed-up inventors who gave up after the first twenty or so attempts. An analogy from the novel business might be Stephen King who is in my opinion one of best, if not the best, novelist today; yet he endured dozens of rejections before he gave up. His wife rescued his latest manuscript from the trash, rewrote his query letter and sent it another agent who accepted it.Steve Dnoreply@blogger.com