Also, as a side note, it always irks me a little when journalists use phrases like "without this woman we'd be living in a world without X". I can't think of any examples where an invention was so unique and so much a product of genius that no one else at the time was even working on anything similar. In fact, the opposite tends to be true: Whenever a technology becomes possible multiple people tend to end up inventing it more or less around the same time.
Certainly, without niggers, we would never have door locks, window bars, ring cameras, ADT, padlock, CCTV, bulletproof glass, crack pipes and many other necessary inventions.
We would still get the cameras. Orwell predicted the surveillance state almost perfectly.
(post is archived)