This guy is a perpetual Chicken Little. He&#x27;s been featured on &#x2F;r&#x2F;economics multiple times. His argument is two-pronged: he plays up the inventions of yesteryear, and plays down the inventions of today.<p>Even the invention of the television was gradual. It was developed via &quot;refinements&quot; of the facsimilie. Ignorance of history is a bad argument. Ditto antibiotics: first arsenic, then atoxyl, then arsphenamine, then sulfanilamide, finally penicillin. The car was nothing but a road-adapted train. The airplane was preceded by ground-towed heavier-than-air craft. And NASA&#x27;s budget was massive relative to the Wrights&#x27;. The telephone came from the telegraph, and the steam engine might have been invented in Alexandria when Jesus was around (assuming He existed).