After Dell CEO Michael Dell's recent comments in Technology Review, MacComedy decided to get together with the innovative wonder boy to explore in more depth what other creative solutions Dell is responsible for.
"Many
people don't realize all we've done," said Dell. "For example, our new
notebooks will have a little latch that will only pop down right before
you close the computer. It's controlled by a magnet! I thought magnets
were only good for hanging my drawings on the refrigerator. Boy, was I
wrong!"
Dell also announced that his company was working on developing its own software as well.
"We're working on this little program called eMovie," said Dell. "You'll actually be able to edit movies right on your desktop! It's really going to utilize the power of the Firewire interface we helped design."
Dell thinks the development of software along with hardware is an important combination. "I like to say we're making the whole thingamajig," said Dell.
But Dell's innovations go beyond the computers. "Many people don't realize that the entire computer industry wouldn't be here if I hadn't created electricity," pontificated Dell. "I knew that lightning was powerful. And hot. Luckily, I created a way of harnessing that power."
But electricity has been around for years. Long before Dell was even born. He explained that it wasn't actually Michael Dell as we know him today, but his inner spirit, which he refers to as "Delios", which appeared to Thomas Edison and told him all about electricity.
"Being in spirit form, I knew I was limited in what I could do with my vast innovative knowledge," explains Dell. "So I innovativly went to Edison and told him everything I knew and then what he should do with that knowledge. Come to think of it, that was the first time a spiritual entity corresponded directly with a human being. So that was pretty innovative of me, too."
The list of innovations doesn't stop there. "After that initial contact with the human race, Delios spoke to many other humans, causing them to produce the innovations I came up with," explained Dell. "I really hit a creative vein in the 1950's with children's toys. Remember the hoola hoop? That was me. Pogo stick? That was me, too."
We look forward to more innovations coming from Dell and his computer assembly plant real soon. At the conclusion of the interview, Dell thanked us for interviewing him for the website he helped create.
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