Philo Farnsworth was the inventor of the TV. I saw his house last week. The most incredible thing about the home was how average it was. It is on an ordinary corner in an ordinary suburban neighborhood in an ordinary midwestern town.
Times have changed. If he were alive today, his third home would be on Seventeen Mile Drive in Pebble Beach.
“As a boy, Farnsworth saw television in the parallel furrows of his father’s potato field. His epiphany: Images could be scanned line by line.” (That’s from a Wired story.)
Moral of the story? Next time you’re viewing a field (or a forest, or a cityscape), look more closely. Your next great idea might be there.
I grabbed the photo from a video by Becky.
I rode 17-Mile Drive last year when I was in Monterey for a course. Nice place! The road crosses Pebble Beach golf course a couple of times.
It is amazing where and when inspiration comes from, you know?
All the best,
dm