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What truth do few agree on?
The question is hard because an honest answer bucks the trend of what the people around you believe, and it might be controversial. Brilliant thinking is rare, and courage is in even shorter supply than genius.
No one can predict the future exactly, but it will be different, and it must be rooted in today's world. Most answers to the question are different ways of seeing the present, and good answers come as close as anyone can to looking into the future. Edwin Land, who founded Polaroid, repeated that the present is the past biting into the future.
Thinking for yourself is the most contrarian thing of all. The question to ask is what valuable company nobody is building.
Why is going against the group so hard?
Psychologist Solomon Asch tested this in the early 1950s by asking people to match line lengths while actors gave obviously wrong answers. About one third of all responses followed the wrong majority. About three quarters of participants conformed at least once. The effect shrank sharply when even a single actor gave the right answer.
What sparked Edwin Land's instant camera?
In 1943, while on vacation in Santa Fe, Land took a photograph of his three-year-old daughter Jennifer. She asked why she could not see the picture right away. Within about an hour he had worked out the outline of how a camera could develop its own film. Polaroid sold its first camera, the Model 95, in 1948 at a Boston department store, and the first batch sold out the first day.
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