Not Useless: We Just Don’t Know What It’s for Yet
The Mothers of Invention? Fiddling and Patience. Reviewing Abraham Flexner’s ‘The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge’
How important was Albert Einstein? I guess it depends on how much you enjoy GPS. It might depend on your appreciation of other things, as well of course. Lasers, solar panels, and stock-market modeling all depend to one degree or another on Einstein’s noodling.
Of course, it’s worth saying: Einstein wasn’t trying to improve the accuracy of global positio…
