Dr. Land was saying: ‘I could see what the Polaroid camera should be. It was just as real to me as if it was sitting in front of me, before I had ever built one

Dr. Land was saying: ‘I could see what the Polaroid camera should be. It was just as real to me as if it was sitting in front of me, before I had ever built one.’ This reminds me a bit of Nikola Tesla's autobiography. He had an unbelievable ability to build mental models of mechanical and electrical things, and he said that they always worked in real life exactly the way he had envisioned them. His mental models were so intense that he would sometimes forget that other people couldn't see them. It's a fascinating, brief read.