Freeman Dyson Answers Questions(science.slashdot.org)
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Freeman Dyson Answers Questions
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did anyone ask him when he's improving the hand dryer?
You're thinking of the inventor James Dyson. Freeman Dyson was a physicist. That's why the comment.
BTW, Starship and the Canoe is a very interesting book if you know Dyson.
BTW, Starship and the Canoe is a very interesting book if you know Dyson.
I don't know if distributed interviews is a startup worthy app idea, because I don't have a solution to this problem. Maybe that makes it a good, hard problem to solve. There's gotta be a better idea for audience feedback than academic clickers and twitter hashtags.
When I used to /., I always asked interview victims to simply tell a cool story. Some of them totally sucked or were obvious filler PR plants, but some were pretty awesome stories.
The benefit of a real human interviewer like Leo Laporte's Triangulation videocast/podcast is the back and forth discussion drags more out of the victim than "I was never a RAF pilot" "I'm not a plasma physicist" and so forth.
Frankly the "hand dryer and vacuum cleaner" Qs getting a laugh is about the best you can get out of this interview. He strikes me as the cantankerous type who would Probably enjoy telling those people off to great hilarity, so they missed an opportunity there. Or maybe not.