Time.com has a flash demo of the “Segway” or, IT as it’s been referred to. Everyone is looking at this thing critically.
I’m thinking that people are under-reacting to this. In history, transportation devices have been the crucial and critial milestones in human economic development. The horse, the wheel, the boat, the motorcar, the locomotive, the airplane, etc… Wouldn’t it stand to reason that the next major accomplishment in human transportation not be a flying backpack, but a device that enables everyone old and disabled alike to commute?
Speaking of the old and disabled, we are also forgetting that the world is about to see it’s elderly population explode. Imagine the shopping malls, city streets, and perhaps even office hallways filled with these devices. The world criticized Billy Durant and William Crapo for their horseless buggy…. people scoffed at the idea of paying an exhorbitant $68.00 for a cart that would only carry a couple of people and move at 18 miles per hour. But, by 1911 people had made millions upon millions of dollars, the world had changed forever. Watch this one folks… I think this is the future that our grandchildren will watch on the history channel.
Instead of scoffing at the less than impressive revalation of “IT.” You’d better figure out a way to become the next David Buick and grab a piece of this pie yourself. Minds far sharper than our own already are plotting to make this a monopoly.