La 4ème de couv. indique : "Apple founder Steve Jobs once hailed Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid and the father of instant photography, as "a national treasure" and once confessed to a reporter that meeting Land was "like visiting a shrine." By his own admission, Jobs modeled much of his own career after Land’s.
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Both Jobs and Land stand out today as unique and towering figures in the history of technology. Neither had a college degree, but both built highly successful and innovative organizations. Jobs and Land were both perfectionists with an almost fanatic attentiveness to detail, in addition to being consummate showmen and instinctive marketers. In many ways, Edwin Land was the original Steve Jobs. Labd is perhaps the most important, yet least known, inventor and technology entrepreneur in American history. A Triumph of Genius tells the incredible story of the reclusive genius who, as a teen, invented the plastic polarizer, which is still used almost a century later in countless popular applications, including our sunglasses and LCD screebs. Land went on to pioneer a revolutionary system of photography that provised instant gratification. Like making a Xerox or using a Kleenex, everyone knows what it means to take a Polaroid. Along the way, Land made critical contributions to top-secret U.S. military intelligence efforts during World War II and the Cold War in the service of seven American presidents. A Triumph of Genius also chronicles, is an unprecedented inside account, Polaroid's landmark legal battle with one-time mentor Eastman Kodak, the outcome of which continues to influence the protection of technological innovation well into the 21st century."
