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#40 Insisting On The Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land and Instant: The Story of Polaroid

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Edwin Land's Predictions of the Future

Edwin Land invented the YouTube spy plane. He advised several presidents from Eisenhower through Nixon on technology. After he quit his advisory post during the Watergate scandal, land ended up on Nixon's enemies list. In 1970, Land stood before a movie crew in an empty factory outside Boston and described the deep future of photography.

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