How come this guy isn't a household name? Oh, right, because the corporations got involved. God, how I love corporations.
His attitude toward the uses that had been made of his invention was more ferocious. His son Kent was once asked what that attitude was. He said, "I suppose you could say that he felt he had created kind of a monster, a way for people to waste a lot of their lives."
You can find more about Farnsworth
here, here, and
here. Poor guy. He invented the device that ruined our culture, and didn't even get credit for it.
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Gerry Canavan @ 12:01 AM
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