we do it not because it is easy, but because it is hard
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Bergholt Stuttley Johnson wrote:
mad as a box of frogs
Heh? Just because he invented a cheap and safe(r) way to transport electricity than Edison's extremely expensive & dangerous method? I.e. AC current instead of Editon's DC requiring the "commutator" (basically what we now refer to as an inverter)? Or because he used fluorescent bulbs instead of incandescent (much more efficient & longer lasting)? Or perhaps because he thought up ways to produce all the different wavelengths of light - making things like medical x-rays possible? Or because he invented radio, wireless message transmission, etc. even before Marconi thought of sending a message without using wires? Or because he used radio to control a boat's electric motor and actuators for the steering (note the only thing he didn't invent in that sentence was the boat - even starting a whole new concept: robotics)? Or because he even had the audacity to invent a means to produce coherent light - Lasers? Or was it perhaps that he envisioned cheap limitless energy from the very bonds of matter - fission / fusion anyone? So not that "mad" after-all ... just so far ahead of the rest of his peers that they assumed he styled himself some sort of wizard in comparison to them. But this is truly the shape of things: Edison was BLAND in comparison to Tesla. Tesla was reaching for the moon, Edison hardly ventured out his door.
no mad as in his best friend was a talking piegeon who shot light beams from its eyes! he was everything you said plus more a whole lot more, but he was also a few cents short of a dollar
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.