Flipboard Culture Desk on Nostr: John "Bud" Benson Wilbur had an illustrious career in civil engineering. But ...

John "Bud" Benson Wilbur had an illustrious career in civil engineering. But nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq2ssaq8hmkfmsshruadrq3vz74rlkq8e9e9awmdmkjena952cemnq2lfax7 (nprofile…fax7) first encountered him in a 1952 essay for the Technology Review in which he imagined the distant-future world of 1977. Newitz writes for the New Scientist about what we can learn from his ideas (registration may be required).

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