A new company - Nova-Mind - has produced some quite nice mind-mapping software.
However, on one of their diagrams (access at
http://www.nova-mind.com/Gallery/brainstorming.jpg) they have attributed velcro
to a brainstorming session at NASA in the early '60s. When I queried this
provenance they said that they got the information from an impeccable source -
the Readers' Digest! I sent them the proper information from the Velcro web
site but have had no reply.
I think we owe it to our interest in biomimetics as a source of ideas to
question their interpretation of history, and suggest to you that you examine
the illustration to which I have given the reference (the velcro bit is in the
lower part of the diagram) then write and ask Nova-Mind where they got the
information from and (as a supplementary question) why they think their
information source is better than Velcro SA. Nova-Mind can be contacted
through one of the addresses given on
http://www.nova-mind.com/Mainnovamind.html
Perhaps you'd like to post your experiences / responses on this mail base?!
Julian Vincent
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Julian FV Vincent [log in to unmask]
Professor of Biomimetics office 01225 386596
Centre for Biomimetic & Natural Technologies mobile 07941 933901
Dept of Mechanical Engineering fax 01225 386928
The University
BATH BA2 7AY
http://www.bath.ac.uk/Departments/Eng/biomimetics/
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