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...Iron Man could be the garage geeks who paved Silicon Valley with cybergold; or Hollywood's visual-effects alchemists, translating their fantasies into pixels to create gorgeous movies like these. Iron Man and Speed Racer are tributes to practical ingenuity and manual dexterity, to real American innovators like Edison and Ford, Steve Wozniak and Dale Earnhardt - to the grease monkey as genius...
...sing the body electric," Walt Whitman wrote more than 150 years ago, around the time the nation started to be united, from Atlantic to Pacific, by the railroad and the telegraph. By the end of the 19th century, one of Thomas Edison's lesser inventions--the movies--had given the world the first machine art. In a way, every film ever since has been a testament to the technical ingenuity of America (or of a few geniuses who happened to live there...
...technology. We must invent, develop and implement - on a global scale - low-carbon means of using power. What's required, as Krupp writes in his new book, Earth: The Sequel, is a "second industrial revolution as sweeping as that effected a century ago by the likes of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller...
InnoCentive was looking to expand beyond industrial research into philanthropy; Bent needed a better light for the developing world. With funding from the Rockefeller Foundation and the New York venture capital firm Spencer Trask - launched over a century ago by the man who helped finance Thomas Edison's first light bulb - Bent put up a challenge on InnoCentive's network to improve on his BOGO light. It was answered in short order by a engineer in New Zealand named Russell McMahon, who came up with a new design that makes better use of both the solar battery and the LEDs...
...change needs. As Kimberlin says: "We don't have an energy crisis; we have an imagination crisis." Solving global warming will require changes in the way we live and use energy, but even more vital are technological leaps in clean technology that must be every bit as revolutionary as Edison's incandescent bulb. Spencer Trask and the Rockefeller Foundation have inundated InnoCentive with an array of challenges in clean tech - including a call for a new kind of electricity-free light bulb that would make Edison's invention obsolete. "We want the kind of challenges that will make a difference...