by Kaeleen Laird | Oct 30, 2024 | Curator’s Corner
October 2024 Minnesota may not be the first place that comes to mind when discussing computer innovation. However, from the 1950s to the late 1980s, Minnesota served as an incubator for groundbreaking technological advancements in computing. Surprisingly, the origin...
by Kaeleen Laird | Sep 26, 2024 | Curator’s Corner
By the 1960s, the science fiction genre was going stale and feeling repetitive. Too many action-filled, space-cowboy operas where a lone male protagonist saved the girl and the galaxy, all with his intellect and physical prowess, saturated the market. Some writers saw...
by Kaeleen Laird | Aug 28, 2024 | Curator’s Corner
Mexico might not be the first place you think about when it comes to technological innovations, but here’s the story of a man who tried to make his country the first to have color television. Guillermo González Camarena was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1917. From a...