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I think I was 10 years old when my dad brought home our first microwave oven. It was an imposing black box that weighed a ton and had scary warning labels that mentioned radiation. The only time I had ever heard mention of radiation before was in regard to the atom bomb. We felt like we were supposed to run for cover whenever we turned it on, but, like everyone else I knew who had one, we did just the opposite. We huddled around it. We brought our noses right up to the translucent window, and watched, mesmerized in wonder, as the food inside got zapped by mysterious, limitless, invisible energy. When the timer beeped, and the door opened to reveal a steaming bowl of soup that had been cold only a minute ago, it seemed like a miracle. I remember those early days with the microwave vividly – experimenting with eggs, and chocolate syrup, and the off-limits gold-rimmed fine china that would send off an awe-inspiring barrage of orange sparks after just 15 seconds. Just 15 seconds! 15! I think that was the most important thing of all about the microwave oven – not what it did to my food, but what it did to my sense of time.

When I think about the microwave oven now, as an adult, as a technologist, that’s what I come back to. How it changed me, and how it changed everyone I knew. Before the microwave, one minute was a ridiculously short period of time. Nothing productive could ever be accomplished in one minute, and everybody knew that. When someone wanted you to know they were almost ready, they would shout, “Just a minute!” but they always took longer, and no one blamed them. After all, who could really do anything in just a minute? The microwave could. When the microwave said just a minute, it meant it. It would count down 60 seconds on its ultra-modern green 8-segment LCD display, then it would beep, and there it was, something hot. And quite possibly, something too hot. In fact, with the microwave, sometimes a minute, unbelievably, was too long. The minute was no longer a granular enough unit of time – now we cared about seconds. 15 seconds, 30 seconds, 45? These were big differences in a microwave. And this led to a big difference in our patience. I watched in my household, and in myself, as 30 seconds became completely and utterly unbearable. In front of the microwave’s uncaring countdown, time had never moved so slowly. I would put in my hot chocolate for 30 seconds to warm up, but by the time the microwave read 10, I would pop open the door shouting, “It has gotto be done by now!” How quickly technology transformed a trivially short period of time into a painful eternity. How profoundly it transformed all of us with it. “Just a minute!” was no longer good enough in the microwave era, now it was “Just a second!” Just look at the Google Ngram plot for the phrase:

As the CEO of a data-science platform company, I have to acknowledge that the spectacular acceleration in usage of “just a second” in the 1970s could be accounted for by many things. But one of them certainly has to be the microwave oven:

That’s what technology does, it changes us. We conceive it, we design it, we build it, we sell it to everyone we can, and we use it at such a scale that it then changes the society that uses it. We like to think about technology going to work for us, but it also very much goes to work on us. And I don’t think that is a bad thing. The microwave may have made us more impatient, but after the microwave, my dad brought home a VCR, and it made us more spontaneous – we were no longer slaves to the TV Guide timeline. Cell phones made us feel more secure, GPS made us more autonomous. Not all technologies have this sort of societal effect, but I’m fascinated by the ones that do. For me, one of the most exciting intersections is the intersection of people and technology, and one of the most exciting possibilities is that we can invent things that change us. If we can build things that change our sense of time, if we can build things that can change our sense of freedom, if we can build things that change our sense of safety and autonomy, can we build things that change our sense of creativity? Can we build things that make us, as a society, smarter? Can we build things that give us new ideas? I’m pretty sure we can.

Once we stop talking about microwaves and VCRs and start talking about creativity and ideas, things get a lot more nebulous. What is creativity, anyway? What generates a good idea, other than inspiration, an equally nebulous term? And why bring technology into these uniquely, purely, human endeavors? I guess because I believe that technology can play a huge role when it comes to enhancing human creativity, and that it already has:

When the technology came out in the 1980’s to digitally sample music, it didn’t just lead to more music, it led to a whole different genre of music. Musicians could suddenly select snippets from other works, speed them up, slow them down, layer them together, and weave them into their own work. As this became more prevalent, music sampling moved beyond using just other music. Artists began sampling speeches, phone calls, sounds that had never existed inside of a studio before. It was a creative explosion, and I believe it was new, even though it was, in a way, just a recycling of what already existed before. I think that all “new” ideas are like this – they come from recycling, remixing, recombining, building blocks that have come before. I know that even this very idea, of ideas being like remixed songs, is not new. But maybe this is the first time it has been combined with microwave ovens?

Years ago I had the pleasure of working with a colleague who was replete with wise sayings. He once told me, “You can have anything you want, just not everything you want.” I have found this over and over again to be very, very true – and especially applicable to my work as an engineer and software architect. He also once told me, “You are the living answer to the questions you ask.” That is, if you ask yourself, “Can I marry a supermodel?” or “Can I make a million dollars?” your life becomes the answer to that question, regardless of whether you actually end up making your money or marrying your object of attraction. This saying has always served for me as a reminder to watch carefully the questions I ask because the path my life will take will be the enacted search for their answer. In 2011 the question that became the most important one for me to ask was, “Can I build a software platform to facilitate new ideas?” Thankfully, I wasn’t the only one who spent time musing about how technology like the microwave can change society and wondering about what ideas are really made of. I found a small team of like-minded people and we started a company called Exaptive. To facilitate our own ideas, we filled our minds with the ideas of others, and our bookshelves with the books they had written. We read about creativity and innovation and networks and cities and urban planning and remix culture and adjacent possibilties and conceptual blending and emergence and consilience and, of course, exaptation. Then we wrote a bunch of code, and tried some things, and rewrote a bunch of the code, and tried some more things, and rewrote the code again, and read some more books to try to remix a bunch more ideas that we could recombine with all the other ideas we had sampled from before. Somewhere along the way we built some pretty neat stuff and got some customers and made a little money, and that let us keep going on our mission, and now set up this blog where we can share our ideas with you. Maybe you can remix them, and improve them, and then let us sample them back in new ways to build new things. Meanwhile, we’re working on a platform that will make sure that when people remix ideas like that, everyone involved will get the credit, and when applicable, the money, they deserve.

We still have a lot of work to do to develop the environment we envision, and to facilitate the sorts of ideas that we think are truly possible to facilitate, but we’re excited about the path it’s taking us down. And we’re excited that you read this blog post and are joining us for a bit of the journey. There are many more posts to come, not just from me, but from the whole team as we each share our perspectives on the work involved in building an idea platform. We"ll cover a wide range of topics, and we"ll try our best to find a balance between talking about the big-picture ideas that inspire us alongside showing the real-world code and examples that give those ideas form. I hope that you"ll become part of the dialogue with us - as we talk about cognitive networks and see how far we can push data-science, as we design new data-visualizations and combine them with machine-learning, as we struggle to find the best ways to get people and computers to work together, as we ruminate about virtual cities, how the Einstellung effect is like exaptation, and why serendipity is so overrated. And I hope that you"ll get excited about the path those thoughts take you down too. It won’t be as fast as a microwave dinner, but hopefully far more satisfying once digested. Thanks again, and don’t hesitate to get in touch if something you read sparks an idea – we’d love to hear from you.

The microwave display is an important part of the appliance. The display is used to confirm that your button-press commands have entered. It counts down the time, displays power level, and shows you which preset you’ve selected. In many households, it’s also the primary visible clock. There are few things more annoying than when your microwave display suddenly stops working. Maybe it’s completely blank, or showing you a row of half-zeros, or the display is so garbled that you have to decrypt it to read your popcorn countdown. Whatever the problem, we’re here to offer a quick guide for what you can do when your microwave display stops working.

The first step for any appliance troubleshooting is to check the power cable and power supply. If the screen has gone completely blank and the buttons don’t beep anymore, there’s a chance that your microwave is just unplugged or is powered by a tripped breaker.

There’s a chance that the power was cut off to your outlet, not a problem with the plug. Check your breaker box. If one breaker is at the center or pointing the wrong direction, flip it “off” then back to “on” to reset it. Then check your microwave.One last check is to plug your microwave into another outlet. Just in case that does the trick.

If it’s not a power problem, then the issue really is inside your microwave display and control panel. To access this, you’re going to need to remove the control panel and take a peek “under the hood” to see if you can spot any problems that could be easily fixed.

Unplug your microwave from the wall so there’s no risk of getting a shock when you access the wires behind the panel. Keep in mind that the capacitor inside the microwave can still store voltage for a long period of time even after unplugging the unit. It may require a manual discharge, which you should not attempt without training and prior experience. Look for mounting screws along the top front of your microwave, which covers the front vent. Remove the screws then open the door and pull the vent free. With the door open, you’ll see additional mounting screws securing the panel to the microwave cabinet.

Remove those screws, then carefully pry the panel open, pressing any clips along the edges. There will be wires connecting the panel and the microwave. Secure these wires firmly and/or disconnect and reconnect each wire harness. If there’s a loose wire, it can be repaired with this method.

When all the wires are secure, close the panel back up and press until the clips click. Then return the mounting screws, the vent cover, and the vent cover’s mounting screws. Plug the microwave back in and give the panel a try. There’s a chance you just fixed your problem.

If nothing else has worked, your next option is to consider replacing the control panel. In most cases, you’re better off trying to replace the entire panel assembly than trying to pinpoint exactly which small electric component went wrong and how to fix it. If you do choose to replace the panel, you will need to look up specific information on this repair based on the brand and model of your microwave. Whether your microwave is mounted above the stove may also make a difference. This will determine where your mounting screws and clips are located and the exact steps to exchange one control panel for a replacement. You will, of course, also need to order an exact replacement for your microwave model.

Please remember to unplug the microwave before performing this repair. If you are uncomfortable taking apart your microwave or working with appliance wiring, there’s another option.

A professional appliance repair technician will be able to replace the control panel of your microwave with ease. They will also have a number of additional troubleshooting tricks up their sleeve to help you hunt down the exact problem with your microwave. Whether you don’t have time for microwave drama or you would rather a professional take a screwdriver to your appliances, calling for appliance repairs is often the smartest way to solve a broken home appliance.

Your final option, one that many people choose, is to simply buy a new microwave. This might sound like strange advice coming from a team of repair technicians, but some appliances were not built with the intention of regular repairs or part replacements. Most microwaves today are very affordably priced, a price that includes the bulk-discount of parts and assembly.

The individual replacement pieces and time to do the repairs will often cost you more than simply buying a new microwave of the exact same make and model, or even something newer and nicer. As repair technicians, we can tell you that repairing a washing machine, dryer, dishwasher, or water heater are common because the appliance is much more valuable than its individual parts.

But a microwave? If that control panel is giving you too much trouble and is not a quick fix, consider buying a new one. We’d be happy to help you keep it in great condition so this problem doesn’t happen prematurely with your next model. We are always proud to help local homeowners and business owners keep their appliances in check. Whether you’re calling for maintenance and servicing, emergency repairs, or need an essential part of your appliances replaced, we’re here to help. Contact us today to schedule your repairs, consult on an appliance-related problem, or build a maintenance schedule for the appliances on your property. We look forward to hearing from you.