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Ask HN: Who is “ahead of his/her time” nowadays?
Sometimes you hear someone saying "He is/was really ahead of his time".
Among living people, who is in your opinion are ahead of their time?
- rahulchhabra07 7y agoI always believed paulg was way ahead of his time. - LISP over C++/Java - The first ever web app in Viaweb - The first ever startup accelerator - Check this talk from 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ITLdmfdLI; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ITLdmfdLI; a lot of today's most impressive cos Superhuman, Lambda School, Netflix happen to emerge mysteriously from the talk as is.
- therealmarv 7y agoI only know they don't know now because it would imply you would know what is important in the future.