Charles Rosen, Ivan Sutherland, Ernst Dickmanns – have you heard of any of these names? Most people likely haven’t, though they should have. These are the geniuses behind remarkable engineering firsts and tech created decades ago that are still used today.
AI, robotics, AR and driverless cars may all feel very now, but they’ve all been decades in the making. And once a few decades have passed, it’s easy to forget the people who first came up with the ideas that are powering what we’ll be using tomorrow (or whenever driverless cars are actually available).
While writing a book about the history of future technologies, I met – sometimes over email, other times via university archives – a collection of inventors and engineers who managed remarkable feats well before computers could match…
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