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Common Sense Has No Place In Quantum Mechanics.

I Don't. We've Had Three Technological Revolutions That Have Changed The Course Of Human History, All Driven By Physics. In The First, The Industrial Revolution, Physicists Developed Newtonian Mechanics And Thermodynamics, Which Gave Us The Steam Engine And Machine Power. The Second Technological Revolution Was The Electricity Revolution. That Gave Us Radio, Television, And Telecommunications. Then, Physicists Developed The Laser And The Transistor.

What Do Oil Company Executives, Vampires And Nasa Bureaucrats All Have In Common? They Fear Solar Energy.

Computer Chips Will Cost About A Penny. That's The Cost Of Scrap Paper. The Internet Will Be Basically For Free And It Will Be Inside Our Contact Lens. When We Blink, We Will Go Online. When We See Somebody That We Don't Recognize, Our Contact Lens Will Identify Who They Are, Print Out Their Biography In Your Contact Lens And Translate, If They're Speaking Chinese, Into English With Subtitles As They Speak.

I Realized Very Early In Life What My Abilities And Limitations Were, And Foreign Languages Was Definitely One Of My Limitations. With Strenuous Effort, I Just Barely Passed My French Class At Harvard So I Could Graduate.