INVENTION OF THE CT SCAN AND THE INTERNET IF YOU BUILD IT THEY WONT ALWAYS COME PEOPLE SAW THE CT SCANNER AND THE INTERNET AND SAID SO WHAT

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Remember the movie Field of Dreams? If you build it they will come? In medicine and invention if you build it not only will they not come often they will laugh at you and tell you to get lost. Medicine and Science are full of examples of great ideas being laughed at or thought useless. The CT scan was originally created by engineers not doctors.








When the inventor of the CT scan brought it to doctors and hospitals, the doctors couldn't see a use for CT scanners. Hounsfield, the British inventor of the CT scanner said "Possibly because they were wedded to conventional x ray technologies, some in the medical profession didn't see any advantages in the (CT scan) system". Dr. John Alfred Powell, the executive who eventually brought the CT scanner to market, described one common reaction to his efforts to promote it among doctors in the United Kingdom. "One professor asked me, What's all this computer nonsense you're trying to bring into medicine?" (see reference below)












I recently talked about the story of Dr. Marshall, a physician who was convinced that most ulcers were caused by bacteria. Most doctors even the experts thought he was nuts. The expert doctors ridiculed him and he wound up drinking bacteria to infect himself and prove he could get an ulcer from bacteria.


The potential of the Internet is obvious, right? "Joe Lykken, a theoretical physicist at the Fermilab research center in Illinois, tells a story about something that happened in 1990. A Fermilab visitor, an English fellow by the name of Tim Berners-Lee, had a new trick he wanted to demonstrate to the physicists. He typed some code into a little blank box on the computer screen. Up popped a page of data". Lykken's reaction: Eh.

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"He could already see someone else's data on a computer. He could have the colleague e-mail it to him and open it as a document. Why view it on a separate page on some computer network?" But of course, this unimpressive piece of software was the precursor to what is known today as the World Wide Web. "We had no idea that we were seeing not only a revolution, but a trillion-dollar idea," Lykken says".

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The quotations about the invention of the CT scan are from the book Breakthroughs by Nayak and Ketteringham.