Posted on 03/09/2016 8:04:18 PM PST by ghosthost
The next Einstein will come from Africa. At least that is the premise of a global gathering of scientists, government representatives and innovators in Senegal this week.
The organizers of the Next Einstein Forum say sub-Saharan Africa currently contributes just one percent of the world's scientific research output. But that, they say, is not for lack of ingenuity, but rather lack of opportunity on the continent.
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Not to be picky here, but as far as I know, Einstein sat around reading books, and didn't have a lab? He didn't use a lot of electricity? I don't think opportunity mattered much to him? He was just a clever little guy.
Good point.
And there is not going to be a “next Einstein”.
The Bell Curve says probably not.
I was betting on Detroit or Chicago or Baltimore or Atlanta.
No.
E WAS hooked into the litter a ture and was a native speaker/reader of a prime language deeply involved in Science.
Einstein theories set science development back 100 years because we been chasing the rabbit down the wrong hole.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGxiyG9BPR4
The next Einstein will be thrown in jail for being a climate change denier.
Nope.
I feel another shake down for Americans. The left is so criminal.
Nope.
#1. There won’t be a next Einstein.
#2. If there is, he is not coming from Africa
It does not require ‘opportunity on the continent’ to adopt modern plumbing and to engage in sensible proper use thereof.
Sure, why not?
Maybe start looking through the Kinshasa patent office seeing if there’s any clerk working there so bored they’re doing advanced logarithmic tables for fun during lunch break.
More than clever! But that's the gist of it. It was, and is, all very simple.
I’m just waiting for them to claim that Albert Einstein was secretly African. Or Palestinian.
Maybe. Maybe not. People with Einstein’s level of brain power are actually mutants. Anomolies.
So we have no idea where the next person with that level or brain power will arise.
They must be talking about the Einstein in the white hut. BO the dog has the highest intellect of everyone in there.
More likely from a country like China or Japan.
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