Hello, I am Steve (or Steven).
I started working for gov when I was 15/16 years old for Martin Marietta in Theoretical Mathematics and Space Flight Mechanics during the summer, and then the next summer in Propulsion Systems. When I was there I worked on Viking Lander and other systems that were classified. Another student employee from MIT and I proposed putting a reflecting mirror system in space that could be focused so that we could heat up the jungles of Viet Nam to make them hot so that they would not want to be there or fight. I saw years later that the Soviet Union/Russia said they invented something like this, but I hate to tell them we thought about it well over 55 years ago. Of course, it was shot down by our bosses, but we really do not know what happened to it.
I worked on and off for Martin for a few more years, then started my own business. There I went on to invent a laser projector, the first large screen tv that was thin and had more than 3 million pixels (back then tv was about 307,200 pixels). The display was about 6 inches thick and weighed a couple of hundred pounds. I predicted that in the near future we would be able to get it to about 1/2 thick or less, weigh 50 lbs or less, be a 50 inch diagonal and hang on an ordinary wall. I was called a quack because the biggest CRTS in TVs at that time was a 35 inch diagonal and could weigh well over 400 lbs (some TVs weighed about 850 lbs). So I was a forefather of HD tv that you see now. I tried and get the industry here to back me, but no one saw a future for the US in electronics anymore, except for computers. It even went before Congress. I went to McDonald's, who did not see any future in changing signs for menus, went to Sea World, went to advertising agencies for outdoor signs, etc. No one saw a future in that industry.
Also, the youngest student to get a National Science Foundation grant (back then, cannot speak for all time right now. It probably is possible for someone much younger and smarter than I to have received one. I was way to young to drive so I had to have someone take me or pick me up and drive me to the location for the research) for study in Arctic and Alpine Research, a forerunner of climate change.
Now I am working on changing the molecular structure of water and other materials through manipulation of the electric magnetic field to produce molecules with the same elements but different properties. Probably closet to alien technology that I will ever come. It is almost alchemy, and we are at the very forefront of understanding what it can do. I think it will take several more decades to be adopted and understood where it will be more widely used. But so far I have been able to do small cold fusion with it, a very small temperature gain over unity (20C), and even room temperature superconductivity with copper. However, it is the water that really captures my attention by what it does for the human condition.
But have always been interested in sci-fi, rocketry, and cannot wait (although I will have passed on by then) for flying cars and vehicles that use gravity to "fly" over chemical rockets. I have found that technology does not wait for breakthroughs, but rather by people willing to invest in it and move into the future.
I wish I had the charisma that Elon Musk has for raising money for my dreams. Elon did not invent rocketry, but he brought it to the public space. He did not invent electric cars, but again he brought it to the market. He did not invent the hyper tunnel, but again...he brought it. He has a way of making people believe in his dreams and invest in them. And by doing so, he causes new technology to be invented and used. If you read old scifi from 100 to 50 years ago, you will see his ideas in them.
To the Stars and Beyond. But let's also use our integrity and creativity to solve the problems back here on good ole earth. Let's create a society that is inclusive for all and fixes the pollution problems that we have now.
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