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Time Magazine: Man of the Millennium

Earl Pottinger earlcp at idirect.com
Wed Sep 23 05:39:43 EST 1998


Christian Bau (christian.bau at isltd.insignia.com) wrote:
: In article <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809221904170.17730-100000 at dillinger.io.com>,
: MA Lloyd <malloy00 at io.com> wrote:

: > FWIW the most popular work playing this game is probably Michael H Hart's
: > The 100.  His ordering can of course be debated, but it isn't too bad; I
: > doubt you can make a decent case for anybody he hasn't put in the top 25.  
: > His entries in the top 25 that fall into this millenium are Newton, 
: > Gutenberg, Columbus, Einstein, Pasteur, Galileo, Darwin, Copernicus, 
: > Lavoisier, Watt, Faraday, Maxwell, and Luther.

: Very often, you can take a name and then say "well, if he hadnt done it,
: someone else would.". If Columbus hadnt (re)discovered the Americas,
: someone else would. In the list above, Martin Luther would be the only one
: not in this category, so that is a good reason to make him Man of the
: Millennium.

I have to disagree with you on atless two of them.

Gutenberg - Movable Type (Right?) Printing Blocks existed for atleast a
thousand years from China.  If anyone was going to do it, it would have
been done earlier.

Einstien - I think that it takes a special type of mind to do thought
experiments at the level/details/new view that he did.  It would have
taken years longer and this would have affected both the cold war as well
how the WWII ended.

                  Earl Colby Pottinger


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