I'd go for John Baird/Philo Farnsworth (John invented it first but Philo invented electronic television). I think they'd hate how t.v has become polluted by horrible shows and exaggerated news reports.
Which inventor/scientist would hate what their work has become the most?
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Alexander Graham Bell apparently hated the telephone, and refused to be in the same room as one on more than one occasion. The fact that they are now ubiquitous to modern life would horror him I believe.
Joseph Wilbrand, discovered trinitrotoluene that he wanted to use as a dye.
We all know what application it really has now, and in the past (both World Wars for example)
EDIT: for clarity, I am referring to TNT
We all know what application it really has now, and in the past (both World Wars for example)
EDIT: for clarity, I am referring to TNT
Alfred Nobel.
He was pretty mortified with his creation during his own lifetime. He'd be even more unhappy to see what we've refined explosives to and how we use them now.
I think the Wright brothers wouldn't be best pleased either, they invent manned flight, the rest of us work out ways to use them to drop billions of tons of explosives (that Nobel bloke again) on each other.
He was pretty mortified with his creation during his own lifetime. He'd be even more unhappy to see what we've refined explosives to and how we use them now.
I think the Wright brothers wouldn't be best pleased either, they invent manned flight, the rest of us work out ways to use them to drop billions of tons of explosives (that Nobel bloke again) on each other.
Johannes Gutenburg. If he'd known that his invention would allow for "celebrity biographies", Ann Coulter books, tabloid magazines, sensationalist journalism and trashy romance novels, I'd think he'd at least hesitate to go ahead with the printing press.
Einste... Oh, wait, he did hate it.
Probably the guy who started the newspaper business. He would be shocked at how there are so many shitty magazines about teen problems and crappy boybands.
edit: Not the same as Gutenburg - he would be at least happy to see that a lot of people still read books. Too bad that computers are currently doing all the work..
Probably the guy who started the newspaper business. He would be shocked at how there are so many shitty magazines about teen problems and crappy boybands.
edit: Not the same as Gutenburg - he would be at least happy to see that a lot of people still read books. Too bad that computers are currently doing all the work..
Charles Darwin, he'd probably be flabbergasted at the fact that some scientist misinterpreted his work.
That would make them part of 'the rest of us' that worked out how to do it then, also it was the Italians, they threw grenades out of the plane. Bulgarians came up with the first bomber as we would recognise it.matnatz said:
I'd hate to be pedantic, but Darwin merely commented on the evolution of species, I think the misinterpretation your reffering to would be more linked to genetics (genetica) wich I'm actually taking classes in and wich focusses more on the "enhancing" of species over time.VanityGirl said:Charles Darwin, he'd probably be flabbergasted at the fact that some scientist misinterpreted his work.
I was going to say that, but he didn't really INVENT it. He defined it. It has been in effect since the plants and animals appeared on Earth.Avaholic03 said:
And that some stupid people (like my CURRENT Religion teacher - my previous one was great) still try to explain everything that happens as "God's help". That we depend on him, and even people that can't have children may be unable to procreate because of that... I tried explaining it with genetics, diseases, but she just said "it's still God's work, isn't it?".VanityGirl said:Charles Darwin, he'd probably be flabbergasted at the fact that some scientist misinterpreted his work.
I'm seriously considering leaving those classes. A waste of time, reading Bible (which I could do at home, if it was the only book here), then praising how God loves us and bla bla bla. Thank God (I know, irony) that my priest is coming back in February and the current moron will stop "teaching" us.
Not sure what you mean by that, stating the nature of the "misinterpretation" may be much more informative than you know, throwing out a very vague statement.VanityGirl said:Charles Darwin, he'd probably be flabbergasted at the fact that some scientist misinterpreted his work.
Anyway, I'd go with Dr. Guillotin, who invented the famous execution device as a means of delivering a relatively painless humane means of execution. He in no way intended it to be used as a symbol of terror by bloody revolutionaries executing innocents on nothing but base suspicion.
We all know that Nobel hated what became of dynamite. I think we can start considering the Nobel Prize as something with which he might also feel uncomfortable. I know this is playing an old saw, but Al Gore did nothing to promote peace, and some of those who won for literature are of dubious talent but obvious politics.matnatz said:
