'The best way to predict the future is to invent it' — quote of the day by physicist Dennis Gabor on the…

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Dennis Gabor was a Hungarian-British physicist who's widely credited with inventing holography, a photographic technique that can record and reconstruct three-dimensional images. This is an invention for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971. But his legacy extends to his philosophy on the nature of innovation



Go your own way

Gabor wrote this iconic passage in his now-extremely rare book 'Inventing the Future', in which he sketched out an optimistic vision for the future.

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At the core of his belief was that there was no need to any longer passively predict what may come to pass in the years ahead. Instead, the influence and...

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