Sounds like Faraday understood the… potential.
Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering
shutz@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Faraday, after demonstrating how moving a magnet through a coiled wire induced a current in the wire was asked by a visiting statesman what was the use of this.
Faraday responded, “In twenty years, you will be taxing it”
Similarly, at a demonstration of hot air balloons in France, Benjamin Franklin was asked “Of what use is this?”
Franklin replied, “Of what use is a newborn baby?”
davidgro@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Funnily enough, Faraday seemingly also understood that the Electric Field only possesses a potential in the absence of changing magnetic fields. Because only in the absence of changing magnetic fields, the rotation of the Electric Field is zero, and only then it has a potential.
Anti_Face_Weapon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That’s a really cool Franklin quote. Visionary.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
“Mr. Franklin, of what use is this hot air balloon contraption?”
“You can take ladies up in it with a bottle of wine and a blanket and you know, they can’t refuse, because of the implication. Think about it. She’s floating up in the middle of the sky with some dude she barely knows. You know, she looks around, and what does she see? Nothing but open air. 'Ahhhh! There’s nowhere for me to run. What am I gonna do, say ‘no?’”
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That last bit is me when dealing with people who “aren’t impressed” by today’s AI.
Saleh@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
The problem isn’t the “AI”. It is people praising its babbling as the solution for everything.
ameancow@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m not impressed by today’s AI and I also fully understand that the tech is going to completely upend society and will eventually be a part of our picture of utopia, or our picture of actual hell on Earth.
The people who are screaming it’s wild wonders and benefits are at least as closed-minded as the people who think we’re going to be able to put the toothpaste back in the tube. The actual direction this tech moves is going to be far more like the discovery of radio, in that at the time of it’s discovery and early implementation, the people then had no idea the implications down the road and we’re at the same point. Except the big difference and why this is contentious is that radio was far less dangerous to society broadly.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Ok boomer
ameancow@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Sorry my post didn’t have Subway Surfers playing in the corner with a popular streamer reacting to it so you could actually read it and understand it.
frezik@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
I’m unimpressed by the people who use it.
psud@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
AI tools are pretty good in Photoshop; they’re pretty good in copilot; Ukraine claims they’re good at guiding a drone to a Russian bomber (though they also hit decommissioned aircraft). I think you only see the use of less specialised AI used to generate low quality text and soulless images
ameancow@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I don’t care if people use it, I cannot stand when people wave it around like a new teddy bear that gives them a smug sense of superiority for… checks notes …using a product that someone is selling to let stupid people do easy things.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m sure they have trouble sleeping over that
frezik@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
They’re destroying humanity both physically and mentally, so I certainly hope so.
Landless2029@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Everything I’ve ever heard about Franklin makes him a boss. This is a new one.
musubibreakfast@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Here’s a little known fact that is not true, which will bring some nuance to the previous anecdote, Benjamin Franklin ate babies.
Landless2029@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Another one that is true but sounds like an onion.
He enjoyed the company of GILFS
MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Benjamin Franklin fucks
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
British children! Maybe a few Prussians too.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That was John Paul Jones, but Franklin taught him.