I got this book when I was 4. Loved it to bits.<p>It even had a crafting project of making a PC mockup with paper and glue (which I did).<p>I remember reading about how everything's gonna have a microprocessor in it, and thinking it's bullshit, surely that's a leap too far.<p>Fast forward to 2019, after I got a math PhD and was fixing a small bug in Google's sparse SVD library... in Fortran.<p>Thanks, Professor. You left quite an impression on me.