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Electronic or electric?
Discovery or invention?
Going back, how about the potato? I recall discoveries pointing to the early Egyptians plating gold using current from tubers. They knew the potential of this discovery, too, which is why they stopped the research. Can you imagine trying to get everybody out of their comfy air conditioned huts with free HBO just to build those big stone things?
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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