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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 |
Tech: The Missing Comet For The Remote Control's Inventor
Robert Adler, inventor of the remote control, passed away this weekend, at the age of 93; of heart failure. The genius of capitalism, it is said, is not silk stockings for the queen but nylons for the secretary. How do you befittingly eulogize the man whose invention is so ubiquitous that it gave rise to the "couch potato"? To be sure, Adler deserves no blame for what others did with his invention, one of nearly 200 patents he held in his lifetime. "When beggars die, there are no comets seen," Shakespeare wrote in Julius Caesar; "The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes." A moment with the mute button engaged seems apropos.
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