"The good effects wrought by founders of cities, law-givers, fathers of the people, extirpers of tyrants, and heroes of that class, extend but for short times: whereas the work of the Inventor, though a thing of less pomp and show, is felt everywhere and lasts forever"
-- Francis Bacon
Let's hope the inventions that last are finally good ones, not just mind-control, political takeover, bogus polls, and ever-more-clever techniques for covert assassination of political opponents, but inventions the promote freedom, peace, health and prosperity.
It's nip and tuck at the moment...<ng> |
