Geoffrey ‘Hinton-Midgeley’?

Geoffrey Hinton’s (very dark) Nobel Speech …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f5WQAk3dYo

Might he become a modern Midgley? (After all he is one of the great pioneers of the technology he is warning us about).

Thomas Midgley discovered the usefulness of lead in petrol engines. Great!

But, the story goes, the serious harm to public health caused by lead additives (to himself and widely) shocked him. To do better he went on to develop improved refrigeration methods using CFCs … 

…he didn’t live long enough to see how well that turned out!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.

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