> I think the most enduring mystery of #Vannevar Bush is why his name is no longer a household one today, in the way that Edison's is or that we have every reason to expect Musk's to be 80 years from now.
For the same reason newton is while leibniz is not. And einstein is but bohr is not. Marketing. What gets to be a household name is determined by those who command the media/cultural apparatus.
> Where solitude ends, there begins the market-place; and where the market-place begins, there begins also the noise of the great actors, and the buzzing of the poison-flies. In the world even the best things are worthless without those who make a side-show of them: these showmen, the people call great men.
> Little do the people understand what is great — that is to say, the creator. But they have a taste for all showmen and actors of great things. Around the creators of new values revolves the world: — invisibly it revolves. But around the actors revolve the people and the glory: such is the course of things.
Considering bell's experiment proved bohr right and einstein wrong...
Einstein was wrong about the most fundamental aspect of physics of the 20th century. Also, einstein's papers weren't as 'pivotal' as the media leads us to believe.
It's not just einstein. Look at napolean. The guy was one of the greatest military dunces and yet the media portrays him as a military genius. So much of our 'heroes' are artificial creations. Today, it's Turing. The media makes it like he won ww2 for us and that he invented the computer. He did neither, but people think he did because the media decided to canonize him.
For the same reason newton is while leibniz is not. And einstein is but bohr is not. Marketing. What gets to be a household name is determined by those who command the media/cultural apparatus.