To the glory of profit

To the glory of profit ,

"the biggest single motivation of every new idea"...

The Internet (Internet), the largest and most significant technology of the 21st century, was created thanks to an initiative of the state. (The ARPANET, the ancestor of the Internet, was created from the ministry of Defence of the USA at the end of the '60s. The Internet was created in 1983 with the connection to the ARPANET of all the research networks).

The idea of the Internet was born when computer scientists wanted to share information of their research and to make available the resources of computer systems, even in the most remote user.

"Necessity is the mother of all invention", Martin Cooper, inventor of the mobile phone, an employee at MOTOROLA at the time of the invention.

The World wide Web (WWW) was created as a project of CERN (the European Center for Nuclear Research), from the scientist Tim Berners-Lee, in 1989, who created and the first navigation program on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee and his associates have not claimed any patent, but decided that the invention is not to be part of a specific company, but the acquisition of the whole world (in contrast, of course, with Bill Gates and the Windows).

Joseph Stiglitz, nobel prize winning economist, president of the Council of Economic Experts of the united states during the government of Bill Clinton:

"The Council calculated the average social performance of the state programmes of research and development, and we found that it exceeded the 50% (much higher than programmes in other sectors of investment and of research and development programmes of the private sector".

(From the Biography of the Physician George Papanicolaou, the man who discovered the innovative cytodiagnosis method, known as Pap test):

When he came back, in Greece (1910), the Pap has found that the conditions were not favorable for his future plans. Immediately after his marriage with Andromache Blackbeard, he decided to leave again for abroad, explaining to his parents that "the ideal for me, is not to get rich, nor to live happy, but to work, to act, to create, to do something worthy of a man of moral and lusty".

6 October 2018

George Papanikolaou

BONUS

Albert Einstein about Amy Nether, the great mathematician, in a farewell-thank-you letter:

“The efforts of most people consist in a struggle for daily bread, but most of those who are, either through fortune or some special gift, relieved of this struggle, absorbed to a large extent on the further improvement of their property. Under this effort, directed towards the accumulation of material goods is too frequently the illusion that this is the most important and desirable goal to achieve.

But there is, fortunately, a minority composed of those and those who recognize early in their lives, that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences available to all of humanity, are not come from the external world, but are associated with the development of feelings of thinking and action of individuals. The genuine artists, investigators and thinkers were always people of this kind. And as discretion is the life of these people, so -and despite this - the fruits of their efforts are the most precious gifts that one generation can make in the next....”