"IT" will be revealed- "UPDATE"

ferro · November 26, 2001 10:17PM

Diane Sawyer mentioned that "IT" would be revealed "one week from today" (that would be December 3, 2001)

<a href="http://www.ginger-chat.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=1&topic=226"; target="_blank">Here is were I first read about it... click here.</a>

<a href="http://www.ginger-chat.com/GMA_IT_Announcement.wav"; target="_blank">Here is a shortcut to the audio clip from the show... click here.</a>

Here is a clipping

[quote] ""Do you remember IT? A number of people as I go around the country have said to me "what about IT, whatever happened to IT? You talked about IT." Well, we told you earlier about this super-secret brainchild of inventor Dean Kamen.

A mystery invention that, we have been told, not only did it create buzz, everyone will have to have one, it will immediately make the people who sell it richer than Bill Gates. It's that inventive, that amazing.

Well, are you ready, 'cos one week from today, we're gonna reveal right here what IT is. And we don't know either: we don't know if you eat it, or ride it, or co-anchor with it, we don't know, do we? (laughs)

But we're gonna find out one week from today."" (Diane Sawyer - Good Morning America)

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Soon we will all know what the "earth changing" - "hoohaa is all about...

what are your thoughts...???

what is ginger...???

E PLURIBUS UNIX

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[ 11-30-2001: Message edited by: FERRO ]

_ alliance _ · November 26, 2001 10:28PM

an ipod?

logan cale · November 26, 2001 10:31PM

Wahoooooooo!

samantha joanne ollendale · November 26, 2001 11:13PM

Here is a bit of idealistic and wishful thinking:

If "Ginger" turns out to be some amazing variety of super-efficient fuel cell/cheap energy production device (zero-point vacuum energy perhaps?)...which can be used to power motor vehicles, homes, factories, malls, desalination plants, you name it, the list is endless.....we could wean ourselves off our destructive oil habit. That would be the most wonderful news in what has been , a terrible year for America. The economic, human and environmental benefits of such a technology would be bigger than we can imagine....

The pragmatic side of me doesn't expect Ginger to be anything so Earth-shattering, unfortunately.

More idealism:

We did the Manhattan project in the 1940s which rapidly and successfully produced atomic bombs and nuclear energy. Maybe now, as the world runs short of fossil fuels, we could have a 21st century version of the Manhattan project, minus the secrecy, aimed at making energy production cheap, clean and plentiful. Many of the world's most important inventions originate here; American ingenuity is one our our greatest resources.

[ 11-27-2001: Message edited by: Samantha Joanne Ollendale ]

ghost_user_name · November 26, 2001 11:41PM

Hot damn! :eek:

I remember the big ruckus about "it" a year or so ago.

I sure hope "it" lives up to "it's" hype. :cool:

ghost_user_name · November 26, 2001 11:41PM

I think I almost don't care.

Anyone see the South Park about "IT". It was almost funny.

murbot · November 26, 2001 11:44PM

Hmm, maybe an LCD iMac...

sinewave · November 27, 2001 12:57AM

Mr Hat invented it. Didn't you see South Park last week?

daver · November 27, 2001 1:19AM

Didn't see it. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />

I'm looking forward to finding out what "IT" actually is, some months after the hype surrounding it died.

macoracle · November 27, 2001 4:50AM

[quote]Originally posted by starfleetX:

Hot damn! :eek:

I remember the big ruckus about "it" a year or so ago.

I sure hope "it" lives up to "it's" hype. :cool: <hr></blockquote>

When does anything ever live up to it's hype?

That's what is called marketing. We won't tell you what it is, you will all want one, then we release it and huh? then we realize that we have no or hardly any use for it at all.

nonhuman · November 27, 2001 5:47AM

I think "IT" will be some sort of alien brain parasite that takes over our minds and turns us all into slaves in preparation for the imminent invasion of a higher alien race.

matsu · November 27, 2001 6:00AM

I think you mean, "I sure hope it lives up to its hype." It's = it is. Its = possesive.

fran441 · November 27, 2001 9:27AM

What is this, English class?

jrc · November 27, 2001 10:36AM

EVERYONE should know the difference between

it's and its !!!! (Just don't ask Clinton)

Now, typing it correctly is another thing.

belle · November 27, 2001 12:55PM

Weird that there was such a huge fuss about it when it was first revealed last year, and yet two weeks from it's* unveiling and there's hardly a peep?

I'm prepared for disappointment.

[* Yes, it should be "its", but if "it" is its name, then "it's" is also correct.]

[ 11-27-2001: Message edited by: Belle ]

applenut · November 27, 2001 6:34PM

I thought it was already revealed that it was some sort of super scooter?

ghost_user_name · November 27, 2001 6:48PM

Thank you Belle. I was pretty certain I had the grammar right in this case (being that I used "it" as the name in that case).

Yes, people, I do know the difference between its and it's.

[quote]I thought it was already revealed that it was some sort of super scooter? <hr></blockquote>Well, yes and no. IIRC, all that has been said is rumor and speculation. There's the super-scooter idea, the new energy source idea, and the new method of flight idea. Of course, I'm certainly no expert in this field... but who really is other than Mr. Kamen?

[ 11-27-2001: Message edited by: starfleetX ]

lucky · November 27, 2001 7:23PM

**** IT. I just want a machine that makes me non-stop Ho-Hos.

(just ran 10 miles -> hungry)

doctorgonzo · November 27, 2001 8:00PM

[quote]A mystery invention that, we have been told, not only did it create buzz, everyone will have to have one, it will immediately make the people who sell it richer than Bill Gates. It's that inventive, that amazing. <hr></blockquote>

I guess we better buy stock in K-Y Jelly and Astro-Glide.

(If you haven't seen South Park, pay no attention to that comment)

tuxbook731 · November 27, 2001 10:15PM

if It is the south park "It", I'm not paying it!!!

eugene · November 28, 2001 6:33AM

I love It's-Its!

"IT" will be revealed- "UPDATE"

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