“All the best things I did at Apple came from (a) not having money, and (b) not having done it before, ever.” Woz (Apple)*.
It is round about 7 years ago now that we started working intensively on building up the brand biestmilch.com and it is 4 years now that we began consequently telling »the other story« about regulatory principles of our body, about phenomena of balance that are beyond mainstream biology.
Today we tried to implement a video conference between Germany and Australia. The plan was to do an audiovisual documentary on the whole process. We failed to do so because the connection to Sydney was too slow, the delay between the US and Australia finally added up to 400msec, much too long a time to build up solid video stream. I had to send all my guests home. You can imagine how frustrating it was. Especially, if you try to be innovative and compensate for ideas your shortage of money.
In situations like this a sentence like the one of Steve Wozniak* can be encouraging at least for one day disasterous like ours.
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1975 with a “Blue Box”.
Steve Wozniak a Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades. He is Founder, Chairman and CEO of Wheels of Zeus (wOz), helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple’s first line of products the Apple I and II and influenced the popular Macintosh.
For his achievements at
Apple Computer, Steve was awarded the National Medal of Technology by
the President of the United States in 1985, the highest honor bestowed
America’s leading innovators.
In 2000 Steve was
inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame and was awarded the
prestigious Heinz Award for Technology, The Economy and Employment for
“single-handedly designing the first personal computer and for then redirecting his
lifelong
passion for mathematics and electronics toward lighting the fires of
excitement for education in grade school students and their teachers.”
Making
significant investments of both his time and resources in education,
Wozniak “adopted” the Los Gatos School District, providing students and
teachers with hands-on teaching and donations of state-of-the-art
technology equipment. Wozniak founded the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, and was the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, Silicon
Valley Ballet and Children’s Discovery Museum of
San Jose.
Steve is currently a member of the board
of directors for Jacent, a developer of cost-effective telephony
solutions, and Danger, Inc., developer of a end-to-end wireless
Internet platform.
