Forbes December 30, 2024
Evan Kaplan

Evan Kaplan is CEO of InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform, InfluxDB.

In 1962, sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clarke famously said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” That year, the Atlas computer—the fastest in the world at the time—debuted, introducing groundbreaking concepts like virtual memory. It was a marvel of engineering, pushing the limits of what technology could achieve, though still far from magical in today’s sense.

Clarke’s quote resonates for its simplicity, but another of his insights might be even more relevant: “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” Technology has always driven us to test these limits. Imagine how Clarke...

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