THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE FUTURE

摘要

Who was Hugo Gernsback? The answer depends on whom you ask. "Gernsback published the first science fiction magazine!" a science fiction reader will declare. Ask an engineer and you might hear, "Gernsback wasn't he involved in early experiments with television broadcasting?" Others will recall Gernsback's radio magazines. A radio historian will tell you that Hugo Gernsback owned radio station WRNY, introduced the first home radio set (1905), and championed the cause of radio amateurs. A scattered life, indeed, but with one with a focus: the future. Hugo Gernsback was the world's first futurist — one who not only speculated about the future, but also worked to make it happen.