Communications Quotes
Surprising to most people who know of President Theodore Roosevelt’s general liberal views, his 4th son was an ultraconservative who founded and joined racist, anti-Semitic, right wing organizations, and to the distress of many in the family and without lent his name to many of the most extreme right wing causes and organizations.
While this quotation is hyperbole, it is the case that most engineers and scientists have difficulty communicating with scientifically illiterate people about science and technology. Most politicians themselves are scientifically illiterate and as the world becomes more and more dependent on science, the gap becomes more serious.
Vladimir Lenin. He was referring to the propaganda and educational value for communism.
Few high ranking officers, or officials of civilian organizations, take the responsibility for subordinates not understanding instructions.
Media inventors seem to have an overly optimistic view of the invention’s effect. See {635263}.
Spinoza’s ideas were considered so radical and dangerous that he was the only man in history who was excommunicated by the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims.
Some things do not change in democratic politics.
His view was that the major driver of globalization is communications and information which travel at light speed.
Tesla was one of the great American immigrant scientists. He found in America the kind of intellectual and operational freedom that did not exist in the rigid, monarch-controlled, Austro-Hungarian Empire. He developed patents and techniques that formed the technological bases of radio, telephone long distance, TV, cell phones, Wi Fi, just to name a few. Most important he was Thomas Edison’s great nemesis. Edison invented DC electric generators that could power factories or entire streets in a neighborhood. Tesler invented and developed AC electrical technology which could power entire cities and he could move electricity over long distances which Edison could not. Tesler was one of the first scientists to conceive of and try to implement “Big Science” where there were huge capital investments to develop machines and systems to do what had never been done before—philosophically like the CERN Hadron Collider. Tesler even convinced a large corporation to finance the construction of a massive building and tower so he could experiment with the wireless transmission of electricity. However, as the industrial democracies have learned, Big Science can only be funded by governments and it often takes sever working in consort to afford the huge investment that is required. In Tesler’s era, the federal and state governments did not fund scientific research so his work was not only technically ahead of his time but also conceptually. He anticipated most of the problems and need for a national power grid that was challenging America even at the beginning of the 21st century.
Springsteen generally was a favorite of the middle and working class—especially the blue collar workers. He was also very patriotic and expressed that in his songs. However, like many other people, the excesses of the George W. Bush administration caused him to oppose the particular government.
The principle seems to have been generalized from the military field to include executive orders, diplomatic instructions, policy statements and the like.
Regular Weekly Radio Program. FDR was meeting in with the Cabinet and the Military leaders and the White House had not issued any statement yet.
ER was the first official to report on the Japanese Attack to the American people. She left the White House. Went across the street and did her thing.
At the time, the few private companies that provided American Internet service did not want to increase the bandwidth speeds to homes. Those businesses who needed more bandwidth paid dearly for it, but consumers could not afford those rates. With fiber optics, it cost no more to provide higher bandwidth than lower. But then the Internet providers would not be able to make the huge profit margins on the corporate accounts. In much of Europe, however, the Government rules and regulations required a higher standard of performance for the public in general. In the US, the Government did not want to regulate the performance standards of the private sector with respect to the Internet. Clinton argued that the problem should be solved by the private sector, but if they could or did not, he argued that government should set the rules to solve the problem. The software and hardware companies were driving American digital technology forward, but the few communications company were working to maintain the status quo on bandwidth.
