Showing results for "Land" in Computers & Technology

This riveting biography from the American Bar Association visits the spectacular life of Edwin Land, breakthrough inventor. At the time of his death, he stood third on the list of our most prolific inventors, behind only Thomas Edison and one of Edison's colleagues. Land's most famous achievement was the creation of a revolutionary film-and-camera system that could produce a photographic print moments after the picture was taken.

Motivated by the idea of turning Flushing Meadows, literally a land of refuse, into his greatest public park, Robert Moses—New York's "master builder"—brought the World's Fair to the Big Apple for 1964 and '65. Though considered a financial failure, the 1964/65 World's Fair was a sixties flash point in areas from politics to pop culture, technology to urban planning, and civil rights to violent crime. In an epic narrative, Tomorrow-Land shows the astonishing pivots taken by New York City, America, and the world during the fair.

Whether you've just started figuring things out, have been a meta-geek for quite some time, or maybe you're an entrepreneur that's enthusiastic about the opportunities lurking around the corner—this book is your ultimate guide to understanding the concepts of this phenomenal innovation, all the terminology surrounding it, and most importantly, what it means in terms of investments, business models, and job opportunities.