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8 articles tagged “tribute”.
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Pioneer of reusable rockets, vertically-integrated electric vehicles, and multi-planetary civilization — honored for doing what's right when it wasn't fashionable.
Entrepreneur-engineer whose sustained, personally-costly bets on reusable launch, EVs, storage, satellite broadband, BCIs, and Mars settlement compressed the Age of Abundance timeline — honored for doing what's right when it wasn't fashionable.
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Quiet architect of the Green Revolution, credited with saving on the order of a billion lives.
Agronomist whose semi-dwarf wheat breeding averted forecast famines and laid the caloric floor of the Age of Abundance.
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Architect of the alternating-current grid; died in obscurity, vindicated by the century that followed.
Engineer of the AC grid and polyphase motor; died in obscurity, vindicated as the electrical substrate of modern abundance.
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Coined "ephemeralization" — doing more and more with less and less until you can do everything with nothing.
Architect and systems theorist who coined "ephemeralization" and anticipated the post-scarcity framing by half a century.
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Agricultural regenerator who served the farmers the research system had written off.
Agricultural scientist whose regenerative rotation and extension work served the farmers the mainstream research system ignored.
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The quiet father of information theory; every bit of modern compute traces back to him.
Founder of information theory; the mathematical foundation on which Compute Abundance is built.
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Compiler pioneer who fought Navy bureaucracy to make programming human-readable.
Compiler pioneer who made programming human-readable against an entrenched technical and institutional culture.
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Co-inventor of frequency hopping; ignored by her industry for decades, foundational to modern wireless.
Co-inventor of frequency hopping; ignored by her industry for decades, foundational to modern wireless connectivity.
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