Flat Out of Ideas

March 31: Before I start, you may see how I apply my favorite history lessons to the production of comedy, as I continue adding to my hypothetical talkshow, The New Don't Steal Show: Episode XVI. And Mike Myers may read about music that is over his head in my statement, Changing Times. April 4: And if I inadvertently rewrite any old propaganda parodies, I hope I am given the full benefit of the doubt as to their ownership. Since World War Two, there hasn't been very much real technological progress. We have made quantitative advances, but their underlying science remains, more or less, unchanged. Almost all of our modern inventions, for example, depend on the one key invention of the Tesla coil to power them. Tesla, in this sense, single handedly brought us into the current age of computers. Jets, rockets, mobile phones, and remote control devices all got their start in World War Two. And nuclear fission offered a new power source by the war's end. Nothing really new has come along since. Why? I love this war documentary about Ultra. (See my comedy script: The Code Breakers of Stanley Park.) Ultra was the program to crack the 'unbreakable' German code in WW2. Machine encryption was thought by the Germans to be invulnerable, but they failed to consider the weaknesses presented by faulty human operators, as well as to imagine the quite human invention of a machine that could decipher their machine. Their Nazi anti-intellectualism would cost them dearly. This idea of weaknesses existing by the operators of a system has me thinking of weakness of a copyright protection system if it were administered by such people as the hosts of Dateline. The greatest copyright protection system in the world can't save an artist if the operator is corrupt. Oddball intellectuals, facing SS death squads, united to break the German code and to develop the atomic bomb. Einstein wrote a letter to Roosevelt, which led directly to the Manhattan Project. But what would have happened to Einstein if he had not escaped to Switzerland in 1933? Had Einstein not escaped, he would have been gassed for being too old to work as a railroad labourer. God knows how many Einsteins and Teslas perished in the camps. Leading intellectuals were the first to go in every occupied country. They died by the train load. This may well explain the technological plateau leading from then to the present.
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