Claudio;

From what I have read of the history of flight, the Wright brothers did not set out to create a flying machine for the military. As is true of many technological entities it is the market and where the money is that determines how an invention will be used.

The common toothbrush can be used for a number of things perhaps not intended by the inventor. Making a knife to kill or injure another person (not uncommon in jails in the United States) is another use for a toothbrush.

Technology for the sake of technology is like opening Pandora’s box. The child like fever of an inventor or technologist is a very selfish thing indeed! Who knows what lies in store for humanity because someone developed or invented “something”? It may have been a good idea at the time but who knows what impact anything will have on humanity! :)

Tom


>http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/Columns/?Article=ForgottenFatherOfFlight
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>Finally someone has decided to put this history in a book so that people worldwide can get in touch with it.
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>it's amazing how human beings are: one inventing something that should be a peace-bringer, and the others inventing the same thing, but for the opposite reason. It's a pity how people can have such evil thoughts in their minds. :(