English explorer Henry Hudson set foot on an island called Mannahatta 400 years ago. The Manhatta Project has recreated the island as it appeared in 1609, with forests, wetlands, and a vast array of wildlife. See views of Manhattan side-by-side with a computer recreation of what it looked like before it became a city. Link -via mental_floss
(Image credit: Markley Boyer, Mannahatta Project/Wildlife Conservation Society)
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It certainly doesn't mean nothing. Lots of things are discovered and yet don't find mainstream (or any) uses for many years.
Given its size and deep connection to society, had AT&T decided to develop a magnetic tape machine for business and consumer use in the 1930s rather than be fearful of it, the impact of such actions could have been significant indeed, if only for introducing consumer answering machines 25 years or so earlier.
Meh, it's what corperations do.