tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2632066603779000512.post2407925074817566158..comments2023-08-16T00:25:03.236-07:00Comments on have me pompeii your town: mindsteinChris Almondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13107791774450498377noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2632066603779000512.post-62663794677498659412011-07-03T19:43:11.092-07:002011-07-03T19:43:11.092-07:00I'm with you there. So many innovators are pra...I'm with you there. So many innovators are praised with a cliché like "If X had never lived then women would still be wringing out their clothes beside a river." Whereas in fact there was usually a queue of competing inventors claiming credit for the wringer, electric washing machine etc, so that if X had never lived, the secrets of the atom/antibiotics/DNA would have been discovered eighteen months later.Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18297306807695767580noreply@blogger.com