But experience suggests that opinion makers are often too quick with up-or-down judgments about new ideas, and this hastiness is reflected notably in the history of business innovation.
In part, this reflects the fact that some of the first rich people to back Labour came from the arts men like David Puttnam, a film maker, and Melvyn Bragg, a television presenter. (Both men are now peers.) But it also illustrates a keenness to cultivate opinion makers.
But this time round the public, opinion-makers, members of parliament are better informed and they will not just line up behind another Brussels rescue package.
For most of the politicians and opinion-makers who wanted to appease Hitler, the Nazis were not much more than a raucous expression of German nationalism.
And the battle over gun control is now being waged through intensive media campaigns from both sides of the political spectrum to influence public opinion and to assert pressure on policy makers.
You also suggest that policy makers take caution from (asserted) software engineer opinion.
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Now, however, media moves the message in Twitterspeed, and legislation, public opinion, and awareness of diversity of opinion are not just newsmakers, they are money and reputation makers as well.
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Readers may therefore exercise their own judgments by listening to the audio files below, and decide whether, in their opinion, Dr Schwarze has cracked a problem that has defeated instrument-makers for 300 years: matching, or even beating, the Master of Cremona.
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