* Posts by Sand

2 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Dec 2014

The modest father of SMS, who had much to be modest about

Sand

Plus ça change...

Agree with theModge: this is the way it always works. All credit to ElReg for doing some digging on this and making the mess of 'invention' and/or 'innovation' visible.

A whole bunch of people from many places and organisations are generally involved. There is no epiphany, no eureka by a man in a bathtub (except in historical re-tellings that tend to shave the corners off most of the work, the difficulties, as well as forget most of the people, not to mention the time, involved).

Now, could we all stop with the 'Fathers of Technology' nonsense?? Do we really need to keep creating mythical parents for technology? I, for one, much prefer the intrigue, politics, social and multinational mess that is how we struggle to make standards, infrastructures, and the technologies that form with them. That's where the story is, for me...

Deprivation Britain: 1930s all over again? Codswallop!

Sand

"Let them eat cake"

"Let them eat cake" appears to summarise your argument, which did not work out well for those in power the first time round...

Might I suggest that an appropriate response to people in the UK going hungry and cold is *not* to treat it as a categorisation problem (poverty versus inequality). People, human beings like you and me, not having enough money to eat is something rather more fundamental and serious than a debate over semantics, or a cosy arm wrestle about statistics...

Since you have some influence, how are you going to use it to reduce hunger in the UK (as one issue among many than you might choose to help your fellow human beings who have less than you, through no fault of their own)?