It's interesting to see in the excerpt that he seems to have an "engineer's" concept of the future with respect to the all steel household. It's an ideal materi

It's interesting to see in the excerpt that he seems to have an "engineer's" concept of the future with respect to the all steel household. It's an ideal material from an engineer's perspective as he describes it: light, strong, long-lasting, rust-proof... the only problem is that it's also uncomfortable and doesn't any warmth. Edison was a bit off on the books, but he gets credit for predicting the direction of the technology -- miniaturization of data. Six inches of DVDs would more than suffice for all the contents of the Encyclopedia Britannica and several Libraries of Congress.