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....”
