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If there’s one thing we know about geeks, it’s that they hatred having zero to do. Bill Gates has filled his gangling time pciking up knighthoods and Harvard degrees, and Steve Sasson — contriver of the first, and confidently biggest, digital camera — is right away following in his renowned footsteps. Sasson polished a x-ray oven-sized 0.01 megapixel antecedent whilst operative for Kodak approach behind in 1975, and has right away been awarded an titular PhD for his troubles from the University of Rochester. The man, the geek, and the fable (all the same person) will be in London after currently reception serve recognition, in the form of The Economist’s Innovation Award, that commends the “seismic disruption” his invention caused in the margin of consumer photography. Funny, nobody gives us any awards for being disruptive.

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