Who in the world has super taste, a feel for and way of picking subjects that, decades in the future, will seem prescient, as though they had a line on the future?
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More good examples: John Wheeler, Hal Abelson (suggested by
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Just a clarification: I mean people who are right over and over again. Not just that they founded a field, but rather that they were a key enabler in the early days of many, many fields. Eg, Minsky's proteges helped found perhaps a dozen or more distinct fields or subfields.
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To reiterate: lots of people are mentioning field founders. Which is great, but not the question. The question is: who helped enable new fields to emerge, over & over & over & over again. Eg, I can name a dozen fields or subfields for Minsky.
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Like Lynn Margulis?
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That's a really interesting suggestion. I don't know her work super-well, but everything I do know points in that direction, for sure! What do you think of as the things she was really early to? I know her work on symbiosis, and her support for Gaia.
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It's perhaps also interesting those who have been wrong many times, which it also helps. Example: Tommy Gold: steady state of the universe, abiogenic origin of petroleum, moon dust where Apollo landers would sank...
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Interesting example.
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Herbert Simon?
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Yup! Can't believe I forgot him! cc
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Feynman is underrated in this aspect. Nanotechnology, quantum computing, etc. Also path integrals, which go way beyond QED.
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I keep thinking about Warren Weaver
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