I agree with the Author Brian Castner when he states “Ideas do not exist only on their own merits. Timing matters.” Maybe in the mas ideas have emerged and perhaps because of time and weather it has not been possible to execute them and develop them. However, all that information is keep in the memory of history for the next successors dedicated to developing the technology and the course in how the world has been developing in the past years!
Furthermore, I do not think great ideas died just because in a certain time it could not have done due to the climate or technological equipment. However, I believe that someone will always motivated by the same idea that someone else had in mind but could not make real, then prove that such idea was not so bad, and there is still an opportunity to do in the present what could it not have done before.
I agree with the author Caroline Crosson Gilpin that timing matters and Ideas do not exist only on their own merits. This is a great article because it makes you think further. In the late 17s, days was a little bit harder because, they did not have the chance to explore the Northwest Passage. I think the idea of the Northwest Passage is good, because it makes connection from one country to another faster and easier.
My opinion about this article is that in the past of the time to many people was thinking about that they can change the world with a new invention that can help the life of the humans. Also can made the life better. In my case if I have the opportunity to create something that I can help the people to have a better live I will going to do it. Unfortunately, the thing is that most of those inventers made important things for us and they do not know they do. Years later other peoples do it the same and them they take all the credits for it.
The long search of the passage is satisfying for me because that time on their journey they were able to cruise cargo ships, which helped them to deliver economic needs from one country to another, eventually because of climate change. Furthermore, they found a passage called Northwest Passage that is still in the news today. I agree with the author that states. “Ideas do not exist only on their own merits. Timing matters”. Because any idea deserves to be listened. However, not all good ideas are worthy and can work. Timing really matters.
There is a time for everything in someone’s life. This is the same situation for someone who has new ideas; it can take time to realize them. However, at the end the idea you have in the beginning will be a success. Throughout history, many men have shared their ideas through their inventions.We have some examples of inventors, Réné Descartes who created contact lenses, Giovanni Caselli invented the fax machine in 1856. This article talks about Mackenzie a businessman who wanted to speed the pace of trade by connecting New York and China. When he was alive he thought he failed,but he hadn’t. The reason is that the river he couldn’t cross is open now for economic developement. Having the ideas is one thing , but time matters to make ideas become a reality
Many people have good ideas ahead of time. Some famous people had good predictions le Alexander Mackenzie led an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage. Some of them died without achieving them. However even if it is difficult to achieve these dreams in a certain time do not let go of them they may bring a way of success for lots of people. Do them as soon as you get the chance to. I agree with the author don’t exist only on their own timming time matters because nowadays everything change the chance you didn’t have before now we have the ability to survive them. It is good to think positive; it is also good to innovate. Having some prediction can help you do something positive. You can sometimes do important things and help someone grow by predicting a good advice. People may not believe in your prediction they may take it as a joke. However following your prediction can make you achieve what you want. You do not really need people support or ideas to do something they do not always understand the idea you want to share.
I was excited about a story “The Northwest Passage” and how Alexander Mackenzie had been creating some ideas about a new route and finally he found it. In my opinion it`s always nice to have some ideas how can we change something in the world. Nonetheless, it`s not enough just have an idea, one should have a goal in order to make this idea from thoughts into reality. I agree with author “Ideas do not exist only on their own merits. Timing matters.” We have some examples such as creating contact lenses long time ago but people could not use them because of the time. Nevertheless, It doesn`t mean that Rene Descartes should not have been creating this idea and just stop thinking of it. Releasing your idea into reality takes a large amount of time and as a result, it can exist for years. To be honest, I do not have any ideas, which can exist ahead of time. Nowadays, it`s so hard to think of new ideas for the world. It seems like everything has been made already
This article is about Alexander Mackenzie who made a route to cross the continent with commercial things, but it was impossible to use commercially. He created the route, but he does not know. Sending oil tankers to the northern can damage the planet and it can be dangerous for us. The Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean represents a potentially attractive and valuable commercial shipping route; it is more accessible for navigation. Mackenzie ended reaching the Arctic Ocean. The transportation around the continent could take years in the ship. Climate change affect the ecosystems, this is melting the polar ice caps.
I feel that the process of human being development relies on some people live at different timeline who dream up a new idea and undergo an insistent exploration and repeated practice. In the search process, they discovered and created new objects, new ways, or new routes that connected to wider field, all of these can improve human social civilization and progress. As Alexander Mackenzie explores a route connecting New York and China for speeding the development of trade. Although his idea seems to be daring and impossible at that time, and then he still did not find out the Northwest Passage, anyway, he made recorded according to his search that is very important information to the following search and the Northwest Passage finally opened. In fact that proved he was right the melting Northwest Passage is really useful and busy.
I agree with the author’s opinion. There is a Chinese saying “good timing, geographical convenience and harmonious human relations can help to be successful”. Therefore, success really needs a good timing.
Being a pioneer requires a ton of courage and effort, furthermore there are very few gifted like Alexander Mackenzie who could see and believe an idea way ahead of its time. He led an expedition in search of Northwest Passage in the late 1800s, which has been revealed through the climate change. I am truly amazed about what he had achieved in that era, even though he thought it was failure because of an iceberg. As I recall, the most famous person was able to see several decades beforehand is Leonard Da Vinci. Multiple of his ideas, had worked on his notebook, have been interpreted, constructed and tested among scientists and TV shows. In the results, they proved many of his ideas were astonishedly right. I agree that timing matters on ideas ahead of its time. We have benefited from their works and ideas, except themselves whom most deserved a respect and merits. Though I would, I do not have any idea that is ahead of my time, however I believe that flying cars or wearable wings will be popular among people within decade. Yesterday, on 13 March 2018, Dutch aircraft manufacturer had launched a flying car at Genova motor show. It looks sleek, stylish and compact. Many ideas that seem unreal are out there. I personally, cheer them up and support some of them, because, when I was a teenager, I could not imagine people using smart phones like nowadays.
I think that articles likes this one. Make humans realized, how our world is getting, destroyed every decade. I think that the fact that, the Northwest Passage is now a reality because of climate change. We should worry about that. The author mention that, Ideas do not exist only on their own merits and Timing matters. Hi is referring to the fact that. Alexander Mackenzie died thinking we was a failure because he did not find such a routed to discover the Northwest Passage, when he was just 200 years early. Because by the time he tried to discover the Northwest Passage there were still a lot of ice, and global warming had not affect the world yet. In my opinion scientist should be more carefully and stop creating things that destroy our already destroyed planet. I do think that scientist had made incredible inventions. Those inventions does not necessary affect the world, for example the invention of contacts lenses. In 1636 by Rene Descartes. I think that if we keep living the way we are living. If we do not take care of our environment. The world will be treeless and the scientist will have to create oxygen capsules for each human being.
Nowadays and everyday there are in the world, there are thousands and thousands of new ideas every day that are out of time. Many of them might be wasted same how happened with Mrs. Alexander Mackenzie. It is important that at least now thanks to the article we can recognize and appreciate some of the effort that he has done. Also, acquire an idea about who is he and his sail. I am almost sure that most of people in the world do not even have any idea or any knowledge about him and all effort that he did. I’m agree with the author about the time matters, through the time people get the tools that sometimes are need it to develop or to find a way how to do sometime, sometimes can be physicals tools another’s could be sometime related with weather factors, sometimes with the open mine that the population could have. Who knows which factor could be, bud definitely the time matters.
In my opinion is good that people invent thing to making our life easier with the pass of the time every day we need more technology many people in the world have ideas about to new machines and things like that, but unfortunately, not everybody has the money to build it. Not everybody approves new important things and unique ideas to improve in the world, for example in the music as usually people used to like music without sense and rhyme that seems a mess. Lately people that good ideas, unfortunately, people do not support new ideas it seems impossible or huge because they think that, it is going to be a bad idea or waste of time.
What is prediction and invention? Prediction is a statement about an uncertain event and this prediction one creating something, typically the process of creation something has never made before that. People usually make fun when someone give a prediction but after when it has come true they recognize that. One’s get actual value when their predictions turn into an invention. Like Michael Nostradamus, prophecy about the great fire of London that happened on September 2, 1666, a small fire in Thomas Farrier’s bakery on pudding Lane in London turned into three day that consumed the city. It became known as the great fire of London. Nostradamus also predict about French revolution that happened in 1789 and also the atomic bomb that happened in 1945, the united states dropped two atomic bombs on the island nation of Japan, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Many historians argue about his prophecy but later they believe that and accept.
This article is interesting for me. I have heard about these topics but I have never read this article before, because this topic is little difficult for me. However, I learned about Alexander Mackenzie so I know him a little bit. I really respect him because he was Scottish explorer known for accomplishing the first east to west crossing of North American north of Mexico. He tried many ways to find the Northwest Passage and while he was exploring, he found some rivers and got some information. Thanks to these explorers, this world is advancing steadily and they are showing us eagerness to find new things.
One theme that I hate is the ignorance that people have about the advance technological including in the present or past in our world. One of the most important thing in our world is the technological advance because we always are in constantly change and evolution. An example of this is the evolution of the material things likewise cars, aircrafts or ships. If one person who believed in the evolution did not exist, I think that we probably were continued dying at the age of 30s because our medicine could not exist. However, the dramatic part of everything is the lack in do not think about the ecosystems because we are producing a lot of contamination and destroying our earth. We have to get awareness in our around and exterior world. We have to find new forms of how to evolve but that these factors do not affect the nature. Now we have more technology than in the past and we can be in continue evolution without ignorance in people and the avarice. In conclusion, we must find the equilibrium between technology advances and careens of the nature.
The climate has been changing although the time and this is a factor to consider for a better future. In this passage the author shows us the evolution of technology from the past to the present and the possibility that the world will have to continue changing. People could take advantage all of the contributions that be offering most of the existent invention and get whatever they want. I agree with the author when he says “Ideas do not exist only on their own merits. Timing matters” because over time we have received a lot of things from people who were focusing to create somethings until to get it. However, they were trying with hard work and across time the world has recognized their endeavor. For example, Charles Babbage invented programmable computers and now the computer is the most important invention that people use every day. This idea will continue your evolution because each day smart people create new programs to do easier to use the computer.
An ability to predict the future is an extremely useful skill. I think very few people can predict the future. “What idea do you have that is ahead of its time?” which is a New York Times article; on this article I read the story about the long search for the Northwest Passage. By reading, this article I can tell that people make fun when someone gives the future prediction. Furthermore, when people see the predictions comes true then they believe and recognize. Like an example the great Leonardo da Vinci, he has given so many prediction by drawing so many pictures of flying objects but at that time, no one appreciated him. After long time when some people researched on his predictions then they made a flying object. I think ideas do not exist only on their own merits because they are timing matters. The well-known scientist Stephen William Hawking, he was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author and he is well known for his future prediction. One of his recent predictions about earth is, ‘Earth will glow red and become as hot as Venus. In July 2017, he told BBC that humanity is at a “tipping point” where global warming would become so bad that Earth become like Venus, with a temperature of 250 degrees Celsius, and raining sulfuric acid’. However, some people think that prediction is not going to happen. They think Venus is so close to the Sun but Earth is not that much close. Furthermore, for the increasing of global warming it could happen in the future.
Actually many people want to travel around the world and meet cultures, people, food, business and tourist places but for any reason do not do it, especially young people. After reading this article, I think that expedition in search of a Northwest Passage was a great adventure and brave because Alexander was young and he was not afraid to go out in search of the unknown. However, I believe that necessity is the most important thing to develop creativity and I am sure that many ideas were not know or developed in the past because they did not imagine that technology would advance in giant steps. Nowadays we have less research and less development because the projects do not have economic support of our countries or companies for this reason many ideas have not come true, currently it is very important contribute and support research because many people would like to find the solution to diseases such as cancer that today has caused so many deaths.
I am surprised to learn that it took a long time to discover the Northwest Passage. Although it was pursued a long time ago without good results. The same happened with some other ideas that they were becoming a reality after several years such as: the changing of hours, it was suggested in 1784 but was accepted in 1916. The air conditioner, it was suggested in 1902 but in 1950 this became a product of vital importance in extreme weather.
That is why I agree with the author that ever timing matter because nothing becoming reality without the needed and technology that exist nowadays. I have an idea that I think could become reality in the future. It is build a cafeteria in this building because the students do not have a place to take a lunch and we have to walk outside the building to buy food. I hope it can become reality early because it is a needed.
It has been a great pleasure to read the article “The Northwest Passage That Might have Been” by Brian Castner. The pleasure in awareness that not only politics or money, as favorite topics of the first columns, are worth a discussion.
Nowadays reality is similar to science fiction, because of a giant jump in progress in last 50-100 years. However, a significant role of present-day pioneers could be directly comparable with the same role of pioneers in the past. A great number of discoveries, researches and inventions are made every day, but only singulars are ahead of the time. A name of the one person, who could be rightfully named as a person ahead of the present time, comes to my mind. This person’s name is Elon Musk. Inspired by Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation” he tries “to prolong civilization, minimize the probability of a dark age and reduce the length of a dark age if there is one.” The same way as sailors roamed the seas, discovering new continents, Musk plans to expand into the space and colonize Mars in 2022.
Being bullied in childhood, being sneered as an adult, Elon Musk with the child passion in his soul, is the unique gifted personality, who definitely will influence the existence of all human species.
This article focused on a very interesting concept of timeliness of innovative ideas. Before reading this article, I was unaware of this predisposed phenomenon on the historical concept of the Northwest Passage. The application of the importance of context in innovations is an important concept that self-employed entrepreneurs must battle in order to gain success. I can not directly reference a specific product or idea that failed because of its misplacement in time but I do see that more businesses try to avoid this problem by considering how the consumers would react to their products before investing in those products. Time controls effectiveness of innovation, as seen in the article, which is the reason why the statement that "Ideas do not exist only on their own merits. Timing matters.". The fact is that certain things are simply not needed for their time. A printer was not needed centuries before the adoption of education systems and this innovation would seem useless in the past while it is essential in modern schools.
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I think that most dreams can become a reality one day, like Alexander Mackenzie's. At the time, using the northwest passage would have been very redundant due to the maritime technology and the ice being very dangerous, and even into the 60's icebergs were still very dangerous until we became able to appropriately detect them with sonar and radar. Nowadays, the Northwest Passage is very useful because it opened up new routes for trade and a easier way to get it from place A to B.
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In the 30s, Nazi scientist Wernher Von Braun dreamed up a idea to put people on the moon, and he got very close after successfully taking images of the atmosphere with his newly developed V2 rocket for the German war machine. Even though it was created to destroy British cities bad towns, Von Braun saw that it served a much better purpose: Aerospace engineering. The rocket was the first man made object in space, and Von Braun made sure that the Americans captured him so he can further his research after the collapse of the Reich. Now look, we have a space station and probes researching different planets as we speak.
I agree that to release an idea, you must have the support of the people and their ideas as well, always taking into consideration of what they want too. I don't have an idea really, but pioneer Elon Musk does. He wants to colonize mars, and he's getting closer by the minute.
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