provoker

This post, short and to the point, is excellent as a thought-provoker.

It wasn't meant to be a rigorous theory, just a thought-provoker.

My comment was mostly "what if" and a possible thought-provoker.

> "in front of everyone * after *"Your own quote makes it equally arguable Jobs was the provoker?

And small group of provoker tried to get into Presidet's Office as seen on different ustreams like this ones.

My comment was mostly intended as a thought-provoker.

As a thought-provoker it's interesting, but it doesn't seem to directly lead to anything.

No way to determine the actual numbers but as a thought provoker 80/20 is just fine.... and an identifiable concept many are already familiar with.

It was a thing for the Times magazine's 100th anniversary, written as if by someone looking back from 2098, so the point was to be fun and provocative, not to engage in careful forecasting; I mean, there are lines in there about St. Petersburg having more skyscrapers than New York, which was not a prediction, just a thought-provoker.

It was a thing for the Times magazine's 100th anniversary, written as if by someone looking back from 2098, so the point was to be fun and provocative, not to engage in careful forecasting; I mean, there are lines in there about St. Petersburg having more skyscrapers than New York, which was not a prediction, just a thought-provoker.>But the main point is that I don't claim any special expertise in technology -- I almost never make technological forecasts, and the only reason there was stuff like that in the 98 piece was because the assignment required that I do that sort of thing.