The irony of experts witnessing the birth of television and completly missing its significance is absolutely fasinating. You've captured how breakthrough moments often look like failures in real time. The detail about the Express editor thinking Baird might have a razor is darkly funny. I've seen this same pattern with tech ideas at work where everyone dismissed stuff that later became huge.
Yet another one I’d had no knowledge of at all. Thanks Bill!
The irony of experts witnessing the birth of television and completly missing its significance is absolutely fasinating. You've captured how breakthrough moments often look like failures in real time. The detail about the Express editor thinking Baird might have a razor is darkly funny. I've seen this same pattern with tech ideas at work where everyone dismissed stuff that later became huge.
And it is still going downhill.
"Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption"
- John Stuart Mill (English exponent of Utilitarianism, ethical theorist, Philosopher, Economist and Logician. 1806-1873)
His life should be an autobiographical movie
It’s amazing how far technology has come in 100 years.