So that's what Steve Wozniak, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Guglielmo Marconi, did wrong. Someone should have told them.
Those noted are but a very very few.
One of the most common boasts in industry or the construction site is “and I told that engineer yada yada yada”
The capable but broadly uneducated worker boasts of superior knowledge while revealing inferior intellect.
The vast majority of engineers NEED college, to learn the limits of materials, the correct way to calculate stresses in loads, to document the logic behind the code they write.
“So that’s what Steve Wozniak, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Guglielmo Marconi, did wrong. Someone should have told them.”
And you only had to go back 45 years to find someone. Wozniak was working at HP. Find a 20 year old without college working as a programmer.
The people you mentioned were inventors. For every Wozniak there are thousands if not millions who will never have a patent on anything.