Introductory Note: Who are the most important people of the last One Thousand years, i.e., from 1000 AD to 2000 AD? The phrase ‘important people’ are defined as ‘a person /s who changed the destiny of the world; defined the great stream of human history and altered our perceptions. Let us remember them.
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In my list, the man who lit up the world comes on the top. No one has changed the human destiny the way he did. It is because of him we are having a wash of brilliant light rather than torch-lit darkness. In 1879 THOMAS EDISON (1847 – 1931) gave humans the power to create light without fire. He invented an affordable incandescent lamp. Today many life’s conveniences we take for granted. Here we must acknowledge the contribution of Thomas Edison – Radio, Movies, TV, Telephones (he improved on Bell’s) – almost the entire way we live is altered by him forever. The night after his funeral, Americans dimmed their lights for the man who lit up the world.
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Dr. K. Raja Gopal Reddy is a seasoned internationally qualified Insurance professional. What you are reading here, may not answer all the questions we have, but has the absolute power of asking unsettling questions which increase the interest in the strange world, and show the contradictory wonders lying just below the surface of the commonest things of life. Look at this disturbing but beautiful thought of Friedrich Nietzsche “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him”. Dr. Reddy can be reached at: raja66gopal@gmail.com
