Our First Encounter With <em>T. Rex</em>
The money had come fast. As a young man from humble stock, he had toiled away at an entry-level job in telecommunications. Now, as his ambition rode the wave of new technology, a small opportunity had turned into unimaginable riches. What to do with so much wealth? Restless and bursting with pride, and perhaps a tinge of guilt for his good fortune, the multimillionaire transformed into a titan of science. He longed to explore other worlds, his money a conduit for breaking free of the claustrophobic Earth on which he lived.
In 2021, Jeff Bezos went into space. In 1899, Andrew Carnegie went to the Jurassic period.
Carnegie—an impoverished Scottish immigrant who rapidly rose from telegraph boy to railroad baron—was about to become the richest man in his new American home. When a newspaper article trumpeting
