One of the most fascinating things about technological history is seeing how innovations in one field have ripple effects that couldn’t have been predicted by their original innovators.
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When Henry Ford made the automobile affordable for the everyday worker, could he have had any idea that would play a huge role in creating the suburbs? Probably not.
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When Vincent Cerf and other graduate students at UCLA in the 1960s developed packet switching as a way for the military to more reliably transmit data, could they have had the slightest inkling they were laying the building blocks for the current Internet and the staggering level of interconnectedness we experience today? Probably not.
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The same can almost certainly be said about Scott Crump and Chuck Hull. When they were filing their patents in the 1980s for the first 3D printing technologies, could they have had any idea that 30 years later […]
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