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E-books and tablets, smart phones, Google and even The Matrix were all conceived in the middle of the 20th century by the author of Solaris. Here’s how Stanisław Lem predicted the future we live in.culture.pl

13 Things Lem Predicted About The Future We Live In

E-books and tablets, smart phones, Google and even The Matrix were all conceived in the middle of the 20th century by the author of Solaris. Here’s how Stanisław Lem predicted the future we live in.
One day in the 1930s a group of men met at the Scottish Café in Lviv. Over glasses of cognac, they scribbled on the cafe's marble tabletops, and history was made. They were no ordinary guests. These men were Hugo Steinhaus, Stefan Banach and Stanisław Ulam – mathematicians who dreamt big, wrote poems, constructed the atomic bomb and helped organise the first flights to the moon.culture.pl

Maths, Madness and the Manhattan Project: the Eccentric Lives of Steinhaus, Banach and Ulam

One day in the 1930s a group of men met at the Scottish Café in Lviv. Over glasses of cognac, they scribbled on the cafe's marble tabletops, and history was made. They were no ordinary guests. These men were Hugo Steinhaus, Stefan Banach and Stanisław Ulam – mathematicians who dreamt big, wrote poems, constructed the atomic bomb and helped organise the first flights to the moon.

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