If you could bring 1 person back from the dead (any historical figure) who would you choose? (and why)...
For me...
Robert Noyce (my idol lol)... Founder of intel.. His work and moral ethics are inspiring truely a great person..
If you want to know more about Robert Noyce check out the link below...
Good video on Noyce. Too bad the guy died kinda young.
I'd bring back Ben Franklin. I'd like to hear his reactions and thoughts on where technology has gone. Ditto on politics.
I am all for science and techonology but for my vote I think I would want to bring back someone who got shafted and never got to really live like Anne Frank. Too bad there are far too many choices.
we already had this discussion and Ill say it again
Jesus ... you got some explaining to do
Warren Zevon
retrolefty:
Warren Zevon
Hmmm, was going to reply with Jimi Hendrix but already gave my one person. Now I'm waffling. Tough choice, Hendrix or Ben... :~
Given that choice you might like this book, http://www.amazon.com/Tempus-Fugit-Lawrence-Rowe/dp/0976766809/ref=la_B005W3LFAE_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348489634&sr=1-1
The author has gone to great pains to try and accurately portray the three Presidents in today's world. Besides it is great fun to think of Franklin running for President today!
Oh, I would bring back Alexander.
wanderson:
Given that choice you might like this book, http://www.amazon.com/Tempus-Fugit-Lawrence-Rowe/dp/0976766809/ref=la_B005W3LFAE_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348489634&sr=1-1The author has gone to great pains to try and accurately portray the three Presidents in today's world. Besides it is great fun to think of Franklin running for President today!
@wanderson, thanks for that, it does look quite interesting! Out of stock at Amazon right now 
... must be popular, I'll have to check around.
My Grandfather to rename the will on me! $) 
Marilyn Monroe.
Do I need to add a reason?? 
Do I need to add a reason??
For my own reasons Anna Nicole Smith 
Alan Turing.
I'm hoping he can help with my next Arduino project.
It would also be fun to take Edison to an Imax theater.
Charles Darwin
You have to stipulate with "only for a day". It's no fun for long dead people to hang around the living while everyone they knew possibly died. Captain America has that problem living among 21 century super heroes, right? For one day it would be fun. I would bring back from dead whomever said the whole world only needed a few computers some decades ago and have a laugh with the person. Who was that genius?
I believe it was the president 1 of IBM... However, according to Wikipedia, he did not actually make that statement 2. The quote was attached to his name by someone on Usenet.
1 Correction: chairman and CEO.
2 Which I believe. IBM executives typically don't have such a limited foresight nor would they typically assume their products would have such a very tiny market.
Yep, that's part of the reason, to ask him whether he said it or not
It's possible that he or whoever said that believed the computers would be limited to a niche market and that the calculators and tabulators would continue to have the largest part of computing market share. IBM had the largest part of the pre-electronic computer tabulator/calculators market and really those were computers themselves, just in a very limited way. The market for electronic computers would have been greatly limited if the best switch continued to be a vacuum tube. In that case, calculator/tabulators would have continued to rule the business world and most of government calculation too and he would have been right. And then, the transistor.
JoeN:
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IBM executives typically don't have such a limited foresight nor would they typically assume their products would have such a very tiny market.
It's possible that he or whoever said that believed the computers would be limited to a niche market and that the calculators and tabulators would continue to have the largest part of computing market share. IBM had the largest part of the pre-electronic computer tabulator/calculators market and really those were computers themselves, just in a very limited way. The market for electronic computers would have been greatly limited if the best switch continued to be a vacuum tube. In that case, calculator/tabulators would have continued to rule the business world and most of government calculation too and he would have been right. And then, the transistor.
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And then the IC. That IBM 'statement' was probably true for the time, market, technology, and customer base that existed at the time, which is what corporations are usually focused on, developing profitable products that customers will buy. Few envisioned at that time that individuals would some day be able to afford their own personal computers. Now if just those predictions about affordable practical flying cars had come through, I would be happier.