What is the difference between a visonary and a dreamer?

[Lincsong]

Transforming Consumer Electronics

Bell Laboratories developed the transistor to use for hearing aids. Akio Morita of Sony Corp. saw a use for it in radios. He went to Bell and asked to be able to use transistors in radios since they were at the time patented technology. Bell agreed figuring that no one would want to walk around with a radio in their pocket. :eusa_doh: The transistor radio transformed consumer electronics for ever. Who was the visionary; Morita or Bell Labs?

 

[jamespowers]

When The Ford Motor Co. was working on it's first V-8 in the late '20s Henry Ford envisioned a one piece design. All the cylinders cast in one block. His engineers said it couldn't be done. Henry Ford told them it WOULD be done. And they were not to come to him until the design was as he wanted. It was completed in under two years. Visionary? Dreamer? or Stubborn?

Actually all he did was look at the 1917-1918 twin 4 created by Chevrolet and make it more amenable to mass production. The V-8 Chevrolet cost a fortune back then. Chevrolet was first with the V-8 but they just didn't get it right the first time. The visionary Chevrolet paved the way for others. Not until 1955 did they roll out the 265 V-8 again. In fairness, General Motors also used the basic principles learned from the early V-8 in its other models.

Regards,

J

 

[Dixon Cannon]

A visionary knows there will always be dreamers. But a dreamer can only imagine there'll be visionaries.

-dixon cannon

 

[Lincsong]

Actually all he did was look at the 1917-1918 twin 4 created by Chevrolet and make it more amenable to mass production. The V-8 Chevrolet cost a fortune back then. Chevrolet was first with the V-8 but they just didn't get it right the first time. The visionary Chevrolet paved the way for others. Not until 1955 did they roll out the 265 V-8 again. In fairness, General Motors also used the basic principles learned from the early V-8 in its other models.

Regards,

J

Please, Ford envisioned all 8 cylinders cast in a single piece. That garbage put out by Chevrolet in 1917 wasn't all 8 cylinders cast in a single piece.:rage: So in all fairness we have to compare the same designs.

 

[carebear]

From the beginning of "Salt".

"Dreams are not so different from deeds as some may think. All the deeds of men are only dreams at first. And in the end, their deeds dissolve into dreams."

- Theodor Herzl, Old New Land, 1902

 

[Lincsong]

A visionary takes his dreams and applies the principles of success to these dreams. One of these is desire: knowing what one wants.