Is a PC an invention?
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As quoted on wikipedia for INVENTION:\n\n"An invention is an object, process, or technique which displays an element of novelty. An invention may sometimes be based on earlier breakthroughs, collaborations or ideas, and the process of invention requires at least the awareness that an existing concept or method can be modified or transformed into a new invention. However, some inventions also represent a "quantum leap" in science or technology which extends the boundaries of human knowledge. Legal protection can sometimes be granted to an invention by way of a patent."\n\nThe keywords here are "Displays an element of novelty". A computer displays such a novelty. Before the computer there was no such idea in place that would describe a computer. It started out an idea and humanity created it out of necessity and out of curiosity. Expanding the limits of humanities own knowledge.\n\nSecond point is that it was based on earlier breakthroughs in the fields of electronics, the principle of electricity and the "invention" of the switch.\n\nBecause of its novelty, the fundamentals of a computer are protected by patents, thousands of them. So if you apply this principle to the computers parts, you could say that a computer is a product of thousands of inventions.\n\nBy taking something known and extending it further than has been done before, that right there says a computer is an invention. The computer has also spawned inventions itself... like the invention of Yahoo Answers!
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Computer users that ask goofy questions like this are the reasons why I.T. departments were invented.\n\nThe answer is Yes.\nJust remember that the door that slides open is for a CD, it is NOT a cup-holder.
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I would recommend you first hire a pentent lawyer and patent the product or idea.  I think that your lack of a college degree is an advantage.  I don't have one either and am very glad I don't.
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This is an opinion question and you really should be answering this question by yourself - there is no wrong answer as I would tell my students (although teachers may hold discussion among students to get a better answer).  I would suggest you look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention if you need to understand more of what an invention is - but honestly the significance of invention from one person to another will always differ.\n\nGood Luck!!!
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You can find thousands of great ideas for inventions here:\n\nhttp://www.halfbakery.com/
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To invent techincally means you much create something new. Patient wise though you can improve upon another invention
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A PC obsessed society
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No.\n\nI have a real computer.
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i tend to agree.. i have been a pc jockey for a bit too long myself and its occuring more and more to me lately that there actually is a world outside.  sometimes im shocked when the sun hits my face, so maybe it's time to stuff the box in the closet and take out my walking shoes.  id like to write a book too, but i find the time passing on the internet most days, then another and another.  thing is, every day is the same on the internet and there doesnt seem to be any real point to it.  hm
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isnt that what a computer do?
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The answering machine, the UNIVAC 1 (first commercial computer), super glue, the videotape recorder, MR. POTATO HEAD, radial tires, the 3-D movie, oral contraceptives, velcro, the hoola hoop, and the snowmobile.  Take a look at\n\nhttp://www.fiftiesweb.com/pop/inventions.htm
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Here's an example of an invention machine (not necessarily from Invention Machine Corporation) generating an idea that led to a US Patent (but without the actual patent number or title). It's an article about John Koza's 'Invention Machine'.\n\nThe article says :-\n\nHis “invention machine,” as he likes to call it, has even earned a U.S. patent for developing a system to make factories more efficient, one of the first intellectual-property protections ever granted to a nonhuman designer.\n\nGood luck with finding other examples.
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Think about a booth in a local flea market, or swap meet.  I have seen guys who have set up a little retail business selling new, custom built computers.  The overhead is cheap. Also, you could keep your inventory in your car and sell to your techno geek friends at coffee houses, etc.  I know a guy who literally had a "satchel full of blues," Cd's that he had left over after his music store failed.  He would sell them to his friends at restaurants and coffee houses.
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I don't think anything has been invented that can't be hacked into. If you come up with that you will become a millionaire! There will always be thefts ... or someone trying.
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Nanotech is indeed real. Have you never seen surveillance cameras the size of a dime, and what about tracking devices about the size of a cigarette lighter?Do you remember how many different components use to be in a regular am radio & tv set? Tubes, capacitors, resistors, coils, etc. are now on a pc circuit board in the form of an integrated circuit about 1"x1/4". The first computer ever devised needed many rooms to house. The laptop now is less than the sise of some wire bound notebooks high school kids carry.
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And this has what to do with computers?
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I want to invent a machine that makes people young forever. \nWith my registered patent, I don't think I would have a hard time to market it.\nThe problem is I can't be young forever to invent that machine.