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The Engineer Who Invented the Future and Was Told to Hide It

He built the first digital camera. His bosses said bury it.

In 1975, a 25-year-old Kodak engineer named Steven Sasson built the world's first digital camera from junk-bin parts. His managers told him to shelve it — it would destroy the film business. Kodak then spent two decades ignoring its own invention, its own predictions, and its own engineers, before digital photography destroyed the company that created it.

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