We have many Newtons among us today. We are living in a wonderful time because we have so many people on the planet now. Humans are the most precious resource there is. Just consider all the Hollywood stars who have college degrees, even advanced degrees. Mayim Bialik has a doctorate in neuroscience - which is why she plays a nerd so well on Big Bang Theory. She has at least one book out on parenting. Felicia Day was a dual major in music and mathematics before playing in "Buffy" and then going out on her own as a producer. Dancia McKellar also majored in mathematics and wrote four text books for middle school math. Natalie Portman was a co-author for a peer reviewed journal article in neurology (in high school) before she played Princess Padme in Star Wars.

Amazon's Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post. Read about Google's Eric Schmidt. It is true that Bezos and Schmidt are Bilderbergers; but Newton was no libertarian.

(fivedollargold wrote: "We could use a few Newtons today.")

I have published over 300 magazine and newspaper articles. Most of those were business profiles of some kind or another, but two were science fiction; and I placed four poems in computer magazines. I ran for Congress; and was elected a precinct delegate to a state GOP convention. While completing my bachelors in criminology, I served for two years on a city-county board for community corrections. One Christmas past, my wife and I built robots; now we are building a home security system. And I am not special in any way.

Millions of people do stuff like this every day. We enjoy productive leisure, by the paradoxical effects of division of labor: because we can focus on narrow repetitive tasks we can take on more of them.

But that depends on there being billions of us; and our having the freedom to do as we please. That latter is the tougher problem.

We could use a few Newtons today.