Unbeknownst to Me

The father of the Green Revolution has died. It’s worth noting that by focusing on technology instead of politics, Norman Borlaug probably saved more lives than Hitler and Stalin and Pol Pot snuffed out.

A single act of creation usually does more good than a thousand regulations enforced by ten thousand police or imposed by a million soldiers.

Clearly, this technology was not suitably vetted by geeks.

It’s not that it didn’t know the answer, it’s just that it didn’t know the related inputs should be “African or European?”