>>13237805Too much attention may be the wrong thing considering certain aspects of this that I can't get into.
We should, however, have investigative journalists willing to cover the story lined up in case the government pulls a "he knows too much" as they are famous for.
What concerns me is that I think it's at least possible that the government doesn't know or care where the ideas are coming from, since as far as they know, each of these ideas came from totally separate people and not one came clean about where they got the inspiration (why would they?)
As a consequence, no unwanted attention and no visit from the Men in Black. It does expose a stunning gap in awareness on their part. The fact that a freelancer would have to go through the world wide web very publicly with ideas really tells you that the patent office is not accessible to average people. With things like rejecting and stealing patent ides and the Patent Secrecy Act, there are good reasons to skip the patent office altogether, sadly.
What America lacks isn't technology, it's a strong social fabric. Fix that if you want to honor this inventor.
