This article leaves out that forces of good and forces for evil will use these inventions differently. The good must have these inventions too to defend themselves. If these scientists did not invent these things, someone else would have.
There will always be people who figure out how to use inventions in harmful ways. You can’t regret not inventing something if it was invented for the good.
The last scientist with a major regret will be the one that successfully builds a truly AI robot.
But he won't have long to regret it.
How about the jackass that invented The Pill . . . and changed the demographics of Western Civilization forever
I suspect that Oppenheimer just regretted that he didn’t make the bomb for the Soviet Union.
I could see someone regretting something like say a deadly disease but all the items mentioned are objects which could be used for good or bad. For example the A-Bomb probably saved millions of lives mostly Japanese.
Dynamite has done tremendous good in construction.
Gavrilo Princip used a Browning .32 auto to assassinate Archduke Ferdinand and his wife. Browning continued to invent weapons of war. He charged the U.S. a fee of one dollar for the patent rights to his model 1917 machine gun.
Pepper spray has probably saved a whole lot of lives. I can’t imagine why it’s inventor would be anything but proud.
John Sylvan was the inventor of K-Cups (or Keurig Cups) for making coffee.
He regrets his invention because of all the litter his empty cups have created. Enough cups to encircle the earth over one dozen times!
Nobel should really regret not creating stronger rules for awarding that damn peace prize that bears his name.
BS. I did not invent kill him before he kills me, but I used my senses to kill him first.
I would do it again if need be.
Oppenheimer was the administrative genius behind the atom bomb. He was the one who founded the site where it was developed and brought in the scientists needed to complete the project. He oversaw every aspect of it. Read:http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/02/jewish_scientists_helped_america_build_the_atom_bomb.html
Misleading headline. If you read the article most of them actually didn’t regret inventing them, even if they were disappointed in how they were used.
The guy that cracked the shell and though, “I wonder what that slimy thing taste like”
Invented the Raw Oyster thing.
If you didn’t invent it then someone else would eventually
Web page op up ads, take over ads and self starting webpage videos. Any kind of animated web page ad.
Cards in magazines.
Can we guess the leanings of this blog?
Idiot upset about pepper spray because of duh poor widdle OWS scum? Please!
As for the Wrights....IIRC, I’m pretty sure their demos to the army included “bombing” targets. And the misleading writing makes you think they both lived some time. But Wilbur died in1912, hardly any time to push greatly for safety and wring his hands over that.
Is the Scientist who Invented Liberalism on the List?
Watch the Heavy Water War. And pay attention to the German Jew that envisioned power via energy.