December 2, 2009 at 14:29No one is to blame, but what to do?
David Pogue ( by David Pogue ) in its relatively fresh column in The New York Times writes about trends in the near future and the recent past. Well, you know, there, about projectors built into cameras and generally about microprojectors.
Or, say, about the end of the megapixel war (meaningless and merciless) and the beginning of a matrix-sized war. To, for example, improve (or rather, make) the capabilities of conventional consumer digital cameras in low light conditions. He writes a lot of things there that is almost not applicable to our realities. Well, for example, that the local mobile operators were pressed to the nail - they tear, they say, from unfortunate Americans at 20 cents per SMS, while the cost of sending SMS is absolute zero (because a message of 200 bytes is transmitted in the end, all the same, anyway through the Internet). Or one more thing. Netbooks Remember the first models? This hell and horror, terrible brakes, weak batteries ... And now - quite worthy Internet terminals, with GPS, WiMAX and other bells and whistles for the same money. About app stores, able to turn your phone into a barcode scanner for just $ 1, or just a scanner, or a game console, or whatever else you want there, Pogh certainly writes too. But I am not Pog, and I do not pretend. And today I am writing about something else.
You have noticed that out of tons of new techniques, technologies, ideas, discoveries - anything, absolutely nothing comes from Russia. The Russians are famous in the world for allegedly stealing content, apparently breaking into computer networks and, as it were, owning botnets. Are there any modern civil technologies that have been invented and implemented in Russia, and now the whole world is using them? Well, at least something? I really hope for your comments, since I myself could not remember anything. Well, for the sake of justice, we can call it “radio”, but we didn’t invent it in Russia, but in the Russian Empire, we cannot call the technology modern at all, and in general the patent for the radio, as we know, was not received by Popov , but even Tesla and as if even Marconi. What else? Internet, DVD, non-linear video editing, automatic gearbox, color inkjet printing, even Teflon coating for irons - none of the above has been invented in Russia.
Of course, you now object to me, they say, Gagarin ! Here are our " Progress " - the main transport to the ISS ! I object. These are not civilian technologies. Civilians are over there, SpaceShipOne . Throwing the entire economy and industry of the country to the creation of the necessary technology is no wonder. But to make technology accessible to consumers is the task for the solution of which you need to spin.
What is happening in Russia? We are waiting for the iPhone 3Gs to enter the market and rub our hands, waiting for the Kindle 2 ordered on Amazon.com . Some gloating over CrunchPad'oh, someone - curses the iTunes Store what the light is because of the inability to buy music in it while in Russia. That is, it’s impossible to come up with and realize something cool and demanded - we sit, wait until it is brought to us and cleared.
It may seem that I am a vile insinuator, provoking a respectable public to cheer-patriotic performances. Who knows, it is likely that the way it is. However, I pursue completely different goals. I want to understand whether you and I are doomed to live in a state of chronic lag, whether this lag leads to the reproduction of ourselves (the more we lag behind, the stronger we lag), is it possible to somehow get out of this half-century pit? This is "What to do?" without "Who is to blame?" After all, the main problem is that there are no Russian technologies. No, that's all. Even our designers work in Photoshop and other Illustrators. I am not for senseless patriotism, like, let's do Russian Linux, or photoshop. I am for development, not thoughtless use. We have a very developed second and completely missing the first. That is, the bicycle was invented before us. We again, in one form or another, sit on the already-invented bicycle and try either to catch up with the leaders, or (which happens much more often) we ride this bicycle in our own way, which, as the practice of recent decades shows, does not lead anywhere. And while the leaders are creating new vehicles, we continue to saw through the frosty roads of our homeland all on the same bike.
The problem of secondaryity is, in general, on the face. And it concerns, as it turned out, not only the Runet Prize , but high technology in Russia as a whole. I do not see a way out, and you?
Discussion of the topic is in the next issue of my podcast .
Or, say, about the end of the megapixel war (meaningless and merciless) and the beginning of a matrix-sized war. To, for example, improve (or rather, make) the capabilities of conventional consumer digital cameras in low light conditions. He writes a lot of things there that is almost not applicable to our realities. Well, for example, that the local mobile operators were pressed to the nail - they tear, they say, from unfortunate Americans at 20 cents per SMS, while the cost of sending SMS is absolute zero (because a message of 200 bytes is transmitted in the end, all the same, anyway through the Internet). Or one more thing. Netbooks Remember the first models? This hell and horror, terrible brakes, weak batteries ... And now - quite worthy Internet terminals, with GPS, WiMAX and other bells and whistles for the same money. About app stores, able to turn your phone into a barcode scanner for just $ 1, or just a scanner, or a game console, or whatever else you want there, Pogh certainly writes too. But I am not Pog, and I do not pretend. And today I am writing about something else.
You have noticed that out of tons of new techniques, technologies, ideas, discoveries - anything, absolutely nothing comes from Russia. The Russians are famous in the world for allegedly stealing content, apparently breaking into computer networks and, as it were, owning botnets. Are there any modern civil technologies that have been invented and implemented in Russia, and now the whole world is using them? Well, at least something? I really hope for your comments, since I myself could not remember anything. Well, for the sake of justice, we can call it “radio”, but we didn’t invent it in Russia, but in the Russian Empire, we cannot call the technology modern at all, and in general the patent for the radio, as we know, was not received by Popov , but even Tesla and as if even Marconi. What else? Internet, DVD, non-linear video editing, automatic gearbox, color inkjet printing, even Teflon coating for irons - none of the above has been invented in Russia.
Of course, you now object to me, they say, Gagarin ! Here are our " Progress " - the main transport to the ISS ! I object. These are not civilian technologies. Civilians are over there, SpaceShipOne . Throwing the entire economy and industry of the country to the creation of the necessary technology is no wonder. But to make technology accessible to consumers is the task for the solution of which you need to spin.
What is happening in Russia? We are waiting for the iPhone 3Gs to enter the market and rub our hands, waiting for the Kindle 2 ordered on Amazon.com . Some gloating over CrunchPad'oh, someone - curses the iTunes Store what the light is because of the inability to buy music in it while in Russia. That is, it’s impossible to come up with and realize something cool and demanded - we sit, wait until it is brought to us and cleared.
It may seem that I am a vile insinuator, provoking a respectable public to cheer-patriotic performances. Who knows, it is likely that the way it is. However, I pursue completely different goals. I want to understand whether you and I are doomed to live in a state of chronic lag, whether this lag leads to the reproduction of ourselves (the more we lag behind, the stronger we lag), is it possible to somehow get out of this half-century pit? This is "What to do?" without "Who is to blame?" After all, the main problem is that there are no Russian technologies. No, that's all. Even our designers work in Photoshop and other Illustrators. I am not for senseless patriotism, like, let's do Russian Linux, or photoshop. I am for development, not thoughtless use. We have a very developed second and completely missing the first. That is, the bicycle was invented before us. We again, in one form or another, sit on the already-invented bicycle and try either to catch up with the leaders, or (which happens much more often) we ride this bicycle in our own way, which, as the practice of recent decades shows, does not lead anywhere. And while the leaders are creating new vehicles, we continue to saw through the frosty roads of our homeland all on the same bike.
The problem of secondaryity is, in general, on the face. And it concerns, as it turned out, not only the Runet Prize , but high technology in Russia as a whole. I do not see a way out, and you?
Discussion of the topic is in the next issue of my podcast .