![]() ![]() ![]() Like a lightning bolt, theaters could all run the same films. SMPE’s first standard was to get everyone using 35mm film width, 4 sprockets per frame, 1.37:1 picture ratio. There were too many film formats and incompatible equipment designs. In 1916 SMPE, the Society of Motion Picture Engineers was founded to bring order to the chaos that was holding back the growth of the film industry. How do we catch lightning in a bottle again? How do we create a bottled lightning factory? We believe the answer is in pushing the boundaries of the open software movement into open platforms. Tim Berners Lee’s statue will be on display in the pantheon of game changing innovation. With the creation of a client/server protocol, a standard viewer and a web of linking documents, we caught lightning in a bottle. The notion of a killer application was the wrong notion and led to small thinking. The answer of course was not an application but interconnected information. The landscape was dominated by spreadsheets, word processors and databases. I'm Anna Matteo.How open platforms will change the world.įor those old enough to remember, in the late 80’s the software world was asking, “What is the next killer application?” "Bottled lightning" can also mean a very strong alcoholic drink. It is not that common but probably worth noting. We'll end the show with a final usage of this expression. But hopefully, during your lifetime you'll have the experience of catching a little of your own lightning in a bottle. ![]() So, you can't catch real lightning in a bottle. However, it did lead to the invention of the lightning rod and the understanding of positive and negative charges. Then the plan was to catch the electricity in a glass jar. ![]() He thought the electricity would travel down the string to a metal key at the bottom. He had hoped that lightning would strike the kite as it flew high in the sky.
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