AI could be the next big mistake.
I watched The Men Who Built America and they had the story of Nicola Tesla versus Thomas Edison. I may have some details wrong here but directionally, Tesla worked for Edison. Edison outfitted his home with electric lights using Direct Current (DC) and made a big splash. Imagine having people over for dinner and showing them electric lights in your home for the first time in history. They got funding to do some work on this in NY but Tesla came to Edison and said they needed to switch from DC to AC. Edison told him to pound sand so Tesla quit.
That’s one big one. Among the many others is GMO food, CRISPR gene splicing technologies, forever chemicals, plastics, our total surveillance world….. I am sure there are more. Some fear we are sending out signals to aliens on far away planets giving away our location.
I'm not sure that inventing the electric chair makes him a bad man
He built it specifically for PR in his fight with Tesla. He wasn’t looking for a more humane form of execution. He just slowly cooked the first guy instead of an instant kill, so the PR went the wrong way for Edison.
The ‘creatures’ by Boston Robotics are amazing…..and scary. Match them up AI and off we go…….
Yup. have had "SPOT" in my company's booth.
Westinghouse is never given credit for his contributions. Tesla, although brilliant was a failure on his own and with Edison. Westinghouse turned him loose. Westinghouse resisted overtures from Morgan so Morgan had Westinghouse's creditors call in their loans and bankrupted Westinghouse. Westinghouse was pretty much left with only Westinghouse Air Brake Company (his original venture) while JP Morgan et all took over Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing
I deal with a lot of technology startups. Tesla reminds me of many of those CEOs. They have great ideas but most are more technology/engineering oriented. They often lack competence in finance, marketing, sales and even social skills. The best ones I deal with are typically some kind of co-foundership with an engineer and a finance or marketing person.
Yet Westinghouse gets no credit for harnessing Tesla's genius. George Westinghouse was perhaps the best captain of industry. Great inventor, great manager. He was way ahead of his time and bore the angst of Carnegie and others for going with a six day work week at the Wilmerding WABCO plant. The first to understand and deal with labor relations
Westinghouse was told by his bankers in the early days that he couldn’t honor his contract with Tesla on electric motor royalties. Westinghouse approached Tesla about changing it, and Tesla told him to just tear it up. The work was more important than the money.
Upon his death, his workers chipped in to build a statue of him. I think that tells the story better than we can.
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I think you nailed it. If you listen to Jordan Petersen talk about psychology and personality, he talks about this. Most entrepreneurs are high in "trait openness" and creativity. It's what drives innovation. There is a strong correlation between trait openness and left-leaning politics. It explains a lot of the reason why Silicon Valley and Hollywood lean the way they do. A downside of most people with these traits is they are low in "conscientiousness." It explains the assessment of Tesla and perhaps why he struggled to get his ideas accepted. It explains a good bit of what troubles start-ups.
My wife managed clinical trials for a couple of decades. I'm quite aware of normal clinical trial protocol and how it was essentially set aside to bring the COVID vaccines to market in record time.Always remember one thing, whenever the government tells you a new pharmaceutical is safe and effective...
The FDA has never recalled a drug, that is first didn't approve as safe and effective...and those were after full clinical trials that take years.
Every time a govt official stated that the vaxxes were "safe", they were lying. By definition, there was no way for them, or anyone, to have made that assessment.
FWIW, here is a short overview of the clinical trial process and timeline that the FDA says is imperative to ensure efficacy and safety. uxtapose this against the timelines of the vaxxes
How long do clinical trials take?
If you're interested in taking part in medical research, this blog can provide helpful insight into how long the clinical trial process takes.
Agreed, the media (movies included) always seem to want to paint everything in black and white. Life is rarely that simple.
He was also quite egocentric. All patents emanating from his labs were awarded to Edison whereas actual inventors in the Westinghouse labs were named on the patents, not George Westinghouse.
Interestingly, Musk will eclipse them all with Tesla, space x, the boring company, and star link. And he doesn’t often apply for patents
