In a fire station in Livermore, California, a hand-blown bulb with a carbon filament has been burning since 1901 — now just a four-watt glow, steady enough to outlive a century of brighter ideas. It survives because it never had to be bright: steady current, almost never switched off. Still is a kind of bright. AI-generated image, made for the Merlin Dreams Community post of the same name: https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxeygxYBUMa4bkths1SKJra7opuKYk8b9z ↗️