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投稿者 佐藤雅彦 日時 2001 年 1 月 17 日 11:47:20:
回答先: Gingerについての最近の報道（ハイテク景気づくりの煽りかも） 投稿者 佐藤雅彦 日時 2001 年 1 月 16 日 11:31:04:
「ジンジャー」騒動・続報
━━ジンジャーエールはハイテク景気不安の調子づけになるか???
●フジテレビ『とくだね』の小鬘（おづら）ならぬ小倉キャスターが
喜んでいた米国の噂の発明「ジンジャー」について、騒動初期の
米国のニュース記事のいくつかを昨日紹介しましたが、日本語の
翻訳記事が登場しましたので、興味のある方は下記を参照。
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★ WIRED NEWS
TOP NEWS／2001.1.16
1 ■スターリングエンジンを使った最新発明？ ■ ●ところで、新発明の噂があまりにも速く“さびついて”しまった 'Ginger' shows fine line between hype and hoax 「ジンジャー」は誇大宣伝とインチキ話とが 最初は「最高機密の革命的テクノロジー」と噂されていた「ジンジャー」。ところがインターネットなみのスピードで情報が駆けめぐり、たちまち「モータースクーターに毛が生えた程度のもの」という評判に萎んでしまった。しかし誇大宣伝ということでは、「ジンジャー」を発明したとホラを吹いた49歳の発明家本人の売り込みように勝るものはない。とにかくこの人物は宣伝好きの成功者と呼んでさしつかえなかろう。 ■■■■@■■■.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ ● http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/daily/01/011601/ginger_hype.html ''Ginger': hype or hoax? By David Warsh, Globe Columnist, 1/16/2001 Close readers of the inside pages of newspapers around the country last week were treated to a spate of stories trumpeting a mysterious invention that soon would change the world. ''Don't Know What It Is, or What It's About, but Harvard Thinks It's Worth $250,000,'' headlined The New York Times. ''Ginger: the Wheel Thing? Gadget Is Rumored to Be a High-Tech Unicycle,'' speculated The Washington Post. ''Tech world abuzz over still unveiled invention,'' wrote The Boston Globe.
「変身する車椅子」で有名な発明家ディーン・カーメン氏の最新
発明は一体何なのかという憶測が、先週世界中を飛び交った。そ
れはどうやら、現在注目されているスターリングエンジンを使っ
たスクーターのようだ。
[Technology]
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ので、この発明家の素姓について、やぶにらみの批判記事が
登場しています。 この発明家はさながら米国テクノロジー“芸
能界”の━━この業界の“ビートたけし”はビル・ゲイツ、“明石家
さんま”はスティーヴン・ジョブズといったところでしょうか━━の
“海老名みどり”か【笑】。 で、スケベ根性で発明の噂に振り回
され、肩すかしを食らって、愚痴をたれてるマスコミ野郎は前田
忠明かっての【苦笑】。
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●http://digitalmass.boston.com/index.html
紙一重であることを見せつけた
By David Warsh
Moving at Internet speed, 'Ginger' has gone from super-secret revolutionary tech to little more than a motor-scooter, at last check. But amid all the hype, the more intriguing figure was the 49-year-old inventor himself, who by any measure could be called both successful and publicity-hungry.
| MORE |【＝下記の長文記事ですが翻訳してないのであしからず】
ジンジャーは誇大宣伝かインチキ話か？
It was bigger than the Internet, more profitable than software, so fundamental that cities would be redesigned around it. Best of all, it was so close at hand that rights to a 2002 book about it had been sold to the Harvard Business School Press for a quarter million dollars. Yet the nature of the project - code-named Ginger - remained a secret even from the publisher.
Big-name investors were said to be involved. Silicon Valley legend John Doerr of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers. Amazon.com chief executive Jeff Bezos. Apple Computer cofounder Steve Jobs. Credit Suisse First Boston.
The
story orginally had been driven by an account that appeared last Tuesday in a Webzine, Inside.com. It quickly spread to other sites and technology chat rooms, then to network televison morning shows, to CNN, MSNBC, and CNBC.
On Thursday the Hartford Courant broke the story in print: ''Down a tree-lined street of huge homes in an old New Hampshire mill town, past wrought iron gates 12 feet high, through the front door of a six-sided house and beyond a 21/2 story steam engine that adorns the front entryway, Dean Kamen holds a secret that may change the world.''
On Friday came the deluge: the Times, the Post, the Globe, the Boston Herald, and a long follow-up in the Courant - plus, of course, the talk shows. The next day several newspapers, including the Globe and the London Independent, had turned up a patent application that looked as though it might be Ginger: a six-wheeled scooter with an unspecified power source - perhaps a Stirling engine, a discarded technology on which Kamen was known to be working, a very efficient version of the external combustion engine that had powered the Stanley Steamer.
By Saturday the man behind the 12-foot fence in the six-sided house in Manchester, N.H., was trying to put the cork back in the bottle. Kamen told Inside.com that speculation arising from ''an unfortunate, unauthorized leak'' had gotten out of hand. ''We have a promising project, but nothing of the earth-shattering nature that people are conjuring up,'' he said.
The leading suspect for having planted the story? An associate in the Rafe Sagalyn Literary Agency in Washington, whose client, freelance writer Steve Kemper, had garnered the $250,000 contract for a book on the inventor that he had been trying to sell since 1994. Most of the details in press accounts seemed to have come from Kemper's proposal.
But the more intriguing figure was the 49-year-old inventor himself, who by any measure could be called both successful and publicity-hungry. The Worcester Polytechnic Institute dropout patented a wearable infusion pump for insulin, founded a company to manufacture it, and sold it after a few years to Baxter Healthcare Corp. He subsequently invented a portable dialysis unit and a stair-climbing wheelchair. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and last fall was awarded the National Medal Of Technology.
For all that, there is something Gatsby-esque about Kamen. In a lengthy profile in Wired magazine last fall, Boston Globe Internet columnist Scott Kirsner described a man whose props, political longings, and personal boasts often threaten to overwhem his accomplishments.
Chances are that all Kamen's claims will come under scrutiny now, including that technology medal he got from Bill Clinton. What's the difference between hype and hoax? In this case, not much more than the time it takes to bring a product to market.
David Warsh can be reached by e-mail at warsh@globe.com.
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