As for rotary dials and buttons, Mr. Fisher says they make it harder to do maneuvers like parallel parking or a K-turn that require rapid and repeated shifts.
Since then, related innovations have produced a new marketplace where businesses of all sizes turn prospects into customers in a virtual, parallel universe.
Using Linux-based servers working in parallel, they generate a computer model of how a drill bit must twist and turn to hit one or more formations as much as 9, 000 meters below the sea floor.
The nearest parallel is with Teddy Roosevelt, who sought to reform the institutions of government at the turn of the century, taking on both the robber barons and the trade unions in the process.