@paulg nuclear fusion?
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@paulg 1: lots of early AI (IIRC, McCarthy assigned computer vision as an undergrad summer project)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg yahoo search?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg - also, Facebook efforts with html5 on mobile - 1 more reply
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@paulg Operation Plowshare: converting nuclear bombs to practical use is too hard to do. Big explosions are hard to channel. -
@paulg A more comprehensive summary from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plowshare …
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@paulg laundry automationThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg da Vinci's helicopter.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg in this book there are fantastic tales: "To engineer is human" http://www.amazon.com/To-Engineer-Is-Human-Successful/dp/0679734163 … - 1 more reply
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@paulg another recent example is Google and Facebook's abandoned satellite internet efforts http://qz.com/422775/facebook-and-google-are-out-of-the-space-race/ … -
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@paulg Google Wave? My understanding is it was incredibly hard to build, but certainly even harder to explain. The miracle was: it worked... - 1 more reply
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@paulg Any ERP system that tries to replace human reasoning with insufficient machine learning logic (hint: most of them).Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg the Strategic Defense Initiative (aka Star Wars).http://science.howstuffworks.com/star-wars-program.htm …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg the trend here is that it was too hard *at the time* - timing is everythingThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg Would the Beauvais Cathedral count as an example of an engineering project that failed because it was too big?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg All sorts! Project Orion. Project HARP. Etc. This question seems poorly posed, since any failure can be deemed incompetence.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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