This is a premature post because I’m still reading the book.
I think it was in Steve Jobs’ recent biography by Walter Isaacson that I learned Jobs admired Ed Land, the founder of Polaroid. That bumped up Jobs in my estimation, not that he or the living world is waiting for my approbation, but he received merits nonetheless.
When I was in college I got money from Ed Land through his Rowland Foundation to study something during the summer. It just had to be something related to research, and something I’d do on my own. Ed Land wanted to encourage college kids to drop out and start research-driven companies.
The summer after my freshmani year I studied holography, and tried to make some headway in computer-generated holography. A professor gave me some lab space and off I went. Nothing in particular came from that summer, but I did learn that I can do things by myself, and it launched me into a career of physics and optics.
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I never did know much about this guy Ed H. Land, except that he built a building at Harvard shaped a bit like a Land camera (incidentally, that’s why the camera is called a Land camera – it’s named after him – but in an ironic twist, he only got the name ‘Land’ when his grandparents immigrated to the US and the immigration officer mistakenly thought that was their name when they said they’d ‘Landed’). Under Land Polaroid didn’t just exist, it thrived as an engine of invention.
Then the innovation weasels came and stole everything.
More as I finish the book.