ABSTRACT
Ever since the 1970s-for many the “dawn of technological proliferation”—researchers and developers the world over have taken measures to ensure that their particular field of endeavor stays very much away from the category of “a solution looking for a problem.” Very few of these measures were actually successful. The early personal computers (PCs), image processors and robots, not to mention artificial intelligence systems, speech recognition devices, and neural networks all failed to gain real-world exposure and, thus, the early application credibility they truly deserved.
