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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Shannon - information theory, boolean algebra, genetics, cryptography, data compression, robotics (toys, mostly), wearable devices to cheat at poker
Yeah. Shannon's students - including both Sutherlands and Danny Hillis - are pretty remarkable too.
