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Google won't save you #74 - Philo Farnsworth


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You are correct, sir! Without the TV contracts, even if they are the worst in the league, the Brewers would not be able to pay much for the players! And, of course, you'd still be listening to your Brewers games. Everybody knows who invented the lightbulb, but hardly anybody knows anything about Philo T. Farnsworth.
"Philo began laying out his vision for what television could become. Above all else... television would become the world's greatest teaching tool. Illiteracy would be wiped out. The immediacy of television was the key. As news happened viewers would watch it unfold live; no longer would we have to rely on people interpreting and distorting the news for us. We would be watching sporting events and symphony orchestras. Instead of going to the movies, the movies would come to us. Television would also bring about world peace. If we were able to see people in other countries and learn about our differences, why would there be any misunderstandings? War would be a thing of the past." -Evan I. Schwartz, The Last Lone Inventor, about Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of television
and, of course,
"There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet." - Philo Farnsworth, describing TV to his son
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