Amongst MIT entrepreneurs evaluating various technologies folks are always hunting for the killer app. That application is the one that is so amazing that nobody could deny the power of the new technology. More often than not searches for killer applications wander into territories like better preparing the military to fight and treating chronic medical conditions involving nerve damage. Apparently most good technology is first useful for killing people better or to create medical applications that can allow paraplegics and folks with nerve damage to be able to do useful things like eat with spoons. So today at a meeting discussing whether a technology would best fit the military, video game, or medical device market someone cracked a joke that it probably would be best if we stopped trying to make killer apps. But judging from the state of the pope, who has Parkinson's, and was reportedly quite sick at 84 but didn’t show signs of needing to be relieved of duty (death is the main succession mechanism for popes) - we may need to test some of these products out on the infallible one over the next ten years to keep him able to lead a few million Catholics into the next century. I wish the pope well and if I wasn't an atheist who should really be a jew I might even consider praying for him. At a minimum I can take a break for a few hours from looking for killer apps.


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