Which inventor/scientist would hate what their work has become the most?

[wootsniper]

The guys what makes the intarnetz, theyz wud b liek so sad[/idiocy]

You mean the Guy who created the Internet..or more specifically the World Wide Web(which is what we be on right now)...you know...this guy..

Tim Berners-Lee...he also give away all the rights or whatever, so he doesn't see a dime from it.

nope, the internet is the collection of wires an stuff that connects us to eachother and the world wide web is all the URLS hyperlinks an htmls and stuff like that

so it's not the same thing

 

[Amethyst Wind]

I'd say whoever created the modern music industry, because, y'know, Kanye West...

 

[T3h Camp3r T3rr0r1st]

The guys what makes the intarnetz, theyz wud b liek so sad[/idiocy]

You mean the Guy who created the Internet..or more specifically the World Wide Web(which is what we be on right now)...you know...this guy..

Tim Berners-Lee...he also give away all the rights or whatever, so he doesn't see a dime from it.

nope, the internet is the collection of wires an stuff that connects us to eachother and the world wide web is all the URLS hyperlinks an htmls and stuff like that

It was still created by him though as a newer version of ARPAnet the defense forces version so that the commies couldn't knock out communications to everywhere with one attack.

 

[JohnSmith]

Tesla, to have half your work accepted as gospel and allowed to stagnate and the dismissed as crazy talk would be really upsetting.

 

[wootsniper]

The guys what makes the intarnetz, theyz wud b liek so sad[/idiocy]

You mean the Guy who created the Internet..or more specifically the World Wide Web(which is what we be on right now)...you know...this guy..

Tim Berners-Lee...he also give away all the rights or whatever, so he doesn't see a dime from it.

nope, the internet is the collection of wires an stuff that connects us to eachother and the world wide web is all the URLS hyperlinks an htmls and stuff like that

It was still created by him though as a newer version of ARPAnet the defense forces version so that the commies couldn't knock out communications to everywhere with one attack.

no, i mean "who created the Internet..or more specifically the World Wide Web"
that is not true those are totally different things as i just explained

 

[Abedeus]

Al Gore...inventor of the environment. Look at what it's become now. For shame.

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.

It's a joke from Futurama.

OT: Probably the person who invented the guitar, I mean come on.

Meh, I know they joked about it, but still, not a real invention ;p

 

[bodyklok]

All the people who took part in/were responsible for the creation of THE INTERNET must feel pretty ashamed of them selves.

Although that could be part of your argument, it is obvious then that you wear dresses and live in an Amish community.

Either my sarcometor's broken, or, you're actually being serious?

OT: they guy who invented 4Chan (his name escapes me now) he has actually said that he's sad at what it has become but he refuses to get rid of it because it's so hilarious!

He's called Christopher Poole, if I remember correctly, and he lives somewhere in America with his mother.

 

[Smitty of the Tolchocks]

I agree with A.Nobel



And Oppenheimer was pretty sad with his(but not his alone) work in his lifetime as well.

edited to remove blown attempt at quote.

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

i'd have agreed with you there if you didn't say "/thread".

but now i must hate you forever.

Well, we can take comfort in the fact that the feeling is probably mutual. ; )

But you're right "/thread" is a bit silly. It's just that it felt like no one would be able to name any other inventor that could be more sorry for his or her invention than one of the main figureheads behind the atomic bomb.

Sure edison might be able to ***** a little about how people today would be so overly dependent on telephones, but it pales in comparison to a weapon that can blow entire cities of the face of the earth. So you have to agree with me that "/thread", while silly is a bit appropriate.

In fact, if I've started a thread like this I would have askd for any inventor BESIDES Oppenheimer, because it's such a no-brainer answer to the question.

 

[RebelRising]

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.

Don't forget Twilight. That deserves a special mention.

That's what I said. "Trashy romance novels."

Personally, (although he's not a scientist/inventor) I immediately thought of Walt Disney. He created timeless movies loved by children all over the world. What has Disney become today? Money-whores that only promote garbage bands like Jonas Brothers and movies like Camp Rock that are only liked by obsessive teenage girls. The poor guy created something wonderful...and it's turned into this souless corporation.

Very true; it's also sad how traditional animation itself seems to have died out; after Aliens in the Attic, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and yet another Ice Age sequel, I seems like creativity has died out on that front. It's really too bad that stuff like The Prince of Egypt and The Iron Giant apparently aren't marketable anymore. All we have left are Ralph Bakshi (meh) and Don Bluth (good) still doing hand-drawn stuff.

 

[Logic 0]

The guy who invented christianity.

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

Charles Darwin, he'd probably be flabbergasted at the fact that some scientist misinterpreted his work.

If I were him I'd be pissed off that we still let the mentally handicapped interact with society. I mean what if they start breeding?! Evoulution will be downhill from there!

And for those who say that hand drawn comics are better than 3d stuff, they have obviously never seen the awesomeness that is the Shrek trilogy.

 

[Crowser]

The guys what makes the intarnetz, theyz wud b liek so sad[/idiocy]

You mean the Guy who created the Internet..or more specifically the World Wide Web(which is what we be on right now)...you know...this guy..

Tim Berners-Lee...he also give away all the rights or whatever, so he doesn't see a dime from it.

nope, the internet is the collection of wires an stuff that connects us to eachother and the world wide web is all the URLS hyperlinks an htmls and stuff like that

so it's not the same thing

Your all wrong, the internet is a series of tubes.

 

[RebelRising]

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.

Wrong, the Chinese actually had a printing press before him.
OT: Kurt Cobain, if I can count him. Otherwise, I'd probably have to vote the guy who created the internet. Seeing as how he meant it to be in use in case the television services were to go down, so the military could communicate, and it's now used for pornography, illegal pirating of music, movies, and games, and generally for no good things, he'd probably just axe his creation to death with the nearest, heaviest thing he could lift.

When it comes to an internalized society like China, the effects of such an invention as opposed to that of a similar invntion in an expansionist culture are going to be heavily marginalized. The Printing Press made a huge splash all around Europe and the Mediterranean because trade between the different provinces and cities was much greater than that between China and any other culture.

 

[bookboy]

probably einstein or the lady who discovered the particular uranium isotope that has enough critical mass to cause a neuclear reaction. because they basically discovered the principles that led to the A bomb

The stupid bastard who split the atom.

I beleive that both of you are referring to Lisa Meitner, the German chemist who first split Uranium, and Sansha, not only did she live long enough to see what became of her discovery in the hands of warring powers, but, she spent her entire life after her discovery campaigning to put her research to peacful use, and in fact, designed the world's first nuclear power producing reactor in Sweden.