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IT!

So secret, you can't know what it is.

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What is IT? (Hint: it's not Information Technology.)

by Dave Murphy
ISSN 1535-3613

What is IT? I can't tell you. It's too secret.

Harvard Business School Press executive editor Hollis Heimbouch has just paid $250,000 for a book about IT, no, not "IT" as in the acronym for Information Technology -- but as in the name of a new product under development that is so secret neither the editor nor the agent, Dan Kois of The Sagalyn Literary Agency, knows what IT is.

All they now know is that IT, also code-named Ginger, is an invention developed by 49-year-old scientist Dean Kamen, and the subject of a planned book by journalist Steve Kemper.

According to Kemper's book proposal, IT will change the world, and is so extraordinary that it has drawn the attention of technology visionaries Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs and the investment dollars of pre-eminent Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr, among others.

There are possibly two Ginger models, named Metro and Pro -- and the Metro may possibly cost less than $2,000.

Bezos is said "[IT] is a product so revolutionary, you'll have no problem selling it. The question is, are people going to be allowed to use it?" Jobs said "If enough people see the machine you won't have to convince them to architect cities around it. It'll just happen."

Watch for more details to come.

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updated January 11, 2001