On: How to render the Segway Human Transporter obsolete

[TomOfTTB]

I know this is meant as a joke but he makes a really good point on how the messenger can influence a message. If someone you think is a genius goes on and on about how revolutionary a feature is people will often check their skepticism at the door and believe the person. For example, I can't imagine Steve Jobs still thinks the Segway will "change the way we build cities."

But when Dean Kamen was explaining how great it was to him I'll bet any amount of money he believed cities would be rebuilt around the thing