Well, at least we know that Lucas knows about Farnsworth now: Last Friday, as the new Clone Wars series made its long-awaited debut, a new bronze was quietly installed without ceremony at Lucasfilm’s Presidio campus, sculpted by long-time Star Wars fan Lawrence Noble. … The subject of the latest bronze is Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor […]
The release of the new movie "Flash of Genius" has brought the subject of How Inventors Always Get Screwed into the daily media diet. BTW, if you don’t know about Armstrong, you should read Lawrence Lessing’s (he’s not the Internet Lessig) 1956 biography, "Man of High Fidelity." The book is sadly out of print (old
Hmmm… where have we seen this story before? "Flash of Genius" reminded me of Aaron Sorkin’s ("The West Wing") terrific Broadway play "The Farnsworth Invention," about a rural boy genius who invents television, only to have the idea stolen by RCA. The film is, essentially, "Erin Brockovich" or "A Civil Action." There is no denying
