Comments on: Greatest inventor of the 20th century http://bennett.com/blog/2005/06/greatest-inventor-of-the-20th-century/ A regular old blog Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:51:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Ruth http://bennett.com/blog/2005/06/greatest-inventor-of-the-20th-century/comment-page-1/#comment-123409 Ruth Thu, 23 Jun 2005 11:59:30 +0000 http://bennett.com/blog/index.php/archives/2005/06/22/greatest-inventor-of-the-20th-century/#comment-123409 Surely we'd all know more about him if Mr. Kilby had been named something more colorful, like Buckminster or Einstein. He should have fired his agent or at least sued, the American Way. Yes, I jest. It's humbling to realize we give so little attention to some one without whom those annoying little cell phones would have stayed forever back home minding the answering machine, and our meals would have to be cooked in real time. However, the hazards of buckyballs are being encountered. I never did have time for all this 'nano' stuff; see http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3237410#top Surely we’d all know more about him if Mr. Kilby had been named something more colorful, like Buckminster or Einstein. He should have fired his agent or at least sued, the American Way. Yes, I jest. It’s humbling to realize we give so little attention to some one without whom those annoying little cell phones would have stayed forever back home minding the answering machine, and our meals would have to be cooked in real time.

However, the hazards of buckyballs are being encountered. I never did have time for all this ‘nano’ stuff; see http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3237410#top

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