"When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole, we shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance.
Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do this will fit in our pockets.”
Nikola Tesla
Funnily enough, he didn’t manage to foresee that it would be used mostly for cat pictures, HD porn, and flinging virtual poo at each other.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Professors Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman who developed the technology that led to the mRNA Covid vaccines.
They made the crucial breakthroughs that made mRNA vaccines happen.
If that is what the prize was awarded for, it would certainly be the first time a Nobel has been awarded for an “innovation” with a largely-unknown impact on human existence and no obvious benefit. The award process certainly seems to have happened at the speed of science - some deserving individuals waited decades for recognition. Reason being, it often takes that long for the impact of something to become apparent.
Sadly there still are a great number of people who fail to see the greatness in Adolf Hitler’s struggle for peace. Based on this fact I would not have found the time right to nominate Hitler as a candidate to the Nobel Peace Prize had it not been for a number of Swedish parliamentarians who have nominated another candidate, namely the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. This nomination seems to be poorly thought.
He possibly s deserved it for defeating John “Bomb bomb bomb, Bomb bomb Iran” McCain. But at least BarryO had the grace to be embarrassed by it.
Unlike Bob Dylan, who just treated it like the joke it was.
“How dare they give a Nobel Prize in Medicine to something I am opposed to for ideological reasons. Why, they’ll be giving one to those ‘Round Earth’ crazies next.”
About Italy’s eventual ruling House:
“The House of Savoy has never finished a war on the same side it started on, unless it lasted long enough for them to change sides twice.”
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
I’m not in a contest with anybody, have no thoughts about immortality, don’t give a damn about it. It’s the ACTION while you’re alive. The gate springing open in the sunlight, the horses plunging through the light…The glory is in the motion and the dare. Death be damned. It’s today and today and today. Yes.
You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your window. So that’s why I’m scared when you say you love me.
This is probably wrong, but according to the interwebs it was…
