F. Stephen Foster · ← All posts
Einstein. Genghis Khan. Copernicus. Leaders all. Consider just the awesome changes made possible by Einstein. He fathered all modern technology, from TVs to computers to cellphones to atomic power and to, sigh, nuclear bombs.
Over a hundred years after his first publications, his discoveries of the principles of reality continue to invent technologies — not only today’s technologies, like fusion reactors and quantum computers — but probably technologies far into the future. Heck of a guy.
No less for his awesome achievements, Einstein was irrelevant.
How can that be? How can I so fully minimize a thinker and observer as potent as Einstein? Am I denying that Einstein singlehandedly shook the world?
I’m being a bit dramatic, but only to clarify an essential point. Justly so, Supporters think of themselves as being secondary to the originator of any new idea or social movement. I am one of Einstein’s mega Supporters. Without Supporters, Einstein changed nothing. Not one thing.