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Ask HN: Who is “ahead of his/her time” nowadays?
Sometimes you hear someone saying "He was really ahead of his time", and you think: "Damn, wish I had a chance to talk to this person".
Among living people, who is in your opinion are ahead of their time?
- rvz 7y agoRichard Stallman - 30 years ahead of time for free-software, privacy and licenses. Yann LeCun and Geoffrey Hinton - 20 to 30 years ahead of their time for research on AI, neural networks, convolutional neural networks and their many applications to them. Theo de Raadt - 20 years ahead of time for security-focused operating system OpenBSD and its software projects. Perhaps the person we all would have liked to have known who was indeed ahead of their time is Satoshi Nakamoto.
- p1esk 7y agoJeff Hawkins
- enkiv2 7y agoBruce Sterling has consistently been 5-15 years ahead of his time in terms of the direction of popular culture since the late 70s. That is a very good run. He's not hyper-technical, but if you want to know what people will care about & how people will think in a decade, listen to what Bruce is saying now.