William Schockley — one of the three white men who invented the transistor — was an out-and-out racist, at least by today's standards. He was also the manager of the group, Bardeen and Brittan having absolutely zero interest in all the paperwork and communication with management.
Without his invention, there would be no internet, no iPhones, no tablets, no PCs, no servers, no routers, no WiFi, no Bluetooth, no filesharing, no Netflix, no Yahoo, no Google, no Microsoft, no Apple, no Cisco, no TI, no Qualcomm, no Facebook, no Instagram, no Pinterest, none of it. Zero.
They going to boycott all that, wipe its history off the record?
“Without his invention, there would be no internet, no iPhones, no tablets, no PCs, no servers, no routers, no WiFi, no Bluetooth, no filesharing, no Netflix, no Yahoo, no Google, no Microsoft, no Apple, no Cisco, no TI, no Qualcomm, no Facebook, no Instagram, no Pinterest, none of it. Zero.”
He was one person in a lab dedicated to this effort. We would still have all of the above.
Were his generalizations wrong
Look around you
Everybody may be equal to God
They dont equal